“Letter on the appearance of the twelfth caliph” (Risāla fī ẓuhūr al-khalīfa al-thānī ʻashar). Edition of the Arabic Text with English Translation

In the edition of the text, I have standardized some features of West African script styles.Fā’, qāf, nūn and yā’ are written in the edited text in their standard modern form instead of the peculiar form they take in manuscripts produced in the western part of the Islamic world (fā’ and qāf respectively with one dot at the bottom and at the top of the letter; final fā’, qāf, nūn and yā’ without any dot). I also standardized the hamzas that do not regularly appear in the manuscripts. On the co..