Jante la Kandoolu Kitaaboolu IV: Diante’s Bilingual Collection IV

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The entire manuscript is available for download as a PDF file(s). Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Fallou Ngom (Pricipal Investigator; Director, African Studies Center), Ablaye Diakité (Local Project Manager), Mr. Ibrahima Yaffa (General Field Facilitator), and Ibrahima Ngom (photographer). Technical Team: Professor Fallou Ngom (Principle Investigator, Project Director and former Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University), and Eleni Castro (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). This collection of Mandinka Ajami materials is copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library. This is a joint project between BU and the West African Research Center (WARC), funded by the British Library/Arcadia Endangered Archives Programme. Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright and are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. For use, distribution or reproduction beyond these terms, contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]). Citation: Materials in this web edition should be cited as: Ngom, Fallou, Castro, Eleni, & Diakité, Ablaye. (2018). African Ajami Library: EAP 1042. Digital Preservation of Mandinka Ajami Materials of Casamance, Senegal. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27112. For Inquiries: please contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]). For technical assistance, please contact [email protected] / Custodial history: The owner inherited them from his father, Mamadou Lamine Diante who was born in Baghere in Casamance and received his Islamic education in Diao-Simaacounda. He later settled in Kontecounda where he served as an Imam and Quranic teacher until his death.Contains numerous manuscripts written by different hands on a variety of papers. It includes prose and poetry from various Muslim scholars. The manuscripts are written in classical Arabic with glosses in Arabic and Soninke Ajami. The themes discussed in the manuscripts include tawḥid (English: oneness of God), the Quran, Islamic rituals, repentance, knowledge, prophets, life, the sky, youth, wealth, and other topics. Classical Arabic poetry of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke (1853-1927), the founder of the Muridiyya Sufi order, is also included in the collection. The owner is a follower of the Muridiyya Sufi order