Matnu al-ʿAshmāwī fi al-ʿIbāda (Al-Ashmāwī’s Islamic Rituals)

The entire manuscript is available for download as a single PDF file. Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Mohammed Bara’u Musa & Hauwa Usman (Local Project Managers), Adamu Mohammed, Abacha Kachalla, Abdrra’uf Abdullahi & Falmaa Madu Ibrahim (General Field Facilitators), and Haladu Mamman (Photographer). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Director African Studies Center), and Eleni Castro (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). These Collections of Fulfulde & Kanuri Ajami materials are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library. Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]). Citation: Materials in this web edition should be cited as: Kurfi, Mustapha Hashim, Ngom, Fallou, and Castro, Eleni (2019). African Ajami Library: Digital Preservation of Fulfulde & Kanuri Ajami Materials of Northeastern Nigeria. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/38242. For Inquiries: Please contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Provenance / Custodial history: The owner of this manuscript is Alhaji Bashir Jauro from Yola in Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria. The owner of the manuscript purchased it during a book fair in 2011 in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State. The publication date is not indicated but it is evidently a complete unbound copy of a market edition.This undated manuscript is a complete copy the Arabic work by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Bārī al-Rafā‘ī al-ʿAshmāwī, which is explained using Kanuri Ajami glosses by Goni Abubakar Koloma. The book is among the most well-known, well-read and most-cited authorities on Islamic rituals in northern Nigeria and West Africa. Considered more advanced than Qawā’id and Al-Akhdarī, Al-ʿAshmāwī is popular among clerics and students of Islamic jurisprudence. Like Al-Akhdarī and other similar books on Muslim rituals, this text contains many chapters dealing with the significance of good intent, purification of the heart, body, and the environment, ablution and ritual prayers, requirements of ritual prayers, factors that invalidate ritual prayers, and common mistakes in ritual prayers and how to correct them.The contents of this collection were developed with support of the Title VI National Resource Center grant # P015A180164 from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government