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Language Mandinka Place Ziguinchor, Senegal Level [40] File

1. EAP1042/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/1/2
Title:
الاخضري
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Al-Akhdarī in Mandinka Ajami. The manuscript is a Mandinka Ajami exegesis of the popular Mālikī jurisprudence text known as Al-Akhdarī, which is used across Muslim West Africa. Al-Akhdarī, is based on the name of the Algerian scholar, Abū Yazīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
84 TIFF images

2. EAP1042/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/1/3
Title:
Solutions to Problems
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Koleyaalu Jaararaŋo. This collection contains five different texts. The first one consists of prayers designed to help people achieve social mobility. This text is a manual of special prayers and techniques for finding solutions to people's social problems, including love....
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
64 TIFF images

3. EAP1042/4/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/4/3
Title:
Address Book in Mandinka Ajami
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Taamanseelu Kitaaboo. The manuscript is an address book. It contains people’s names and their phone numbers. Some of the people mentioned are from Guinea Bissau. The phone numbers are generally spelled out in Mandinka Ajami. However, in some cases it is the French reading ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
13 TIFF images

4. EAP1042/4/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/4/4
Title:
Divination
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Juubeeraŋo. The manuscript deals with divination techniques. The techniques are used by Mandinka marabouts (local religiousl leaders and healers) in order to diagnose the supernatural or natural causes of people’s challenges or ailments, to prescribe appropriate remedies, ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
22 TIFF images

5. EAP1042/11/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/11/6
Title:
Letters in Mandinka
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Mandinkakaŋ Leetaroolu. The collection contains short notes and letters written by family members in Mandinka Ajami. The first letter is sent from Guinea Bissau by Sire Mbaa Daffe, who is the aunt of the owner to greet him and to request that her children be kept together ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
7 TIFF images

6. EAP1042/20/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/20/1
Title:
Calling for Peaceful Elections
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Kayiro Daanoo Karta Fayi Tumoo. The manuscript is a copy of a Mandinka Ajami poetry written in a pre-electoral context. It prays for peaceful elections and urges voters to fulfill their civic obligations while preserving the tradition of peaceful coexistence and mutual und...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
12 TIFF images

7. EAP1042/21/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/21/1
Title:
Divination
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Ramuloo. The manuscript is a copy of a divination manual in Mandinka Ajami. Divination is popular in Muslim Africa. It is known in Mandinka communities as Ramuloo (from Arabic: Khatt al-Raml). Muslim religious leaders regularly offer divination services to people (Muslims ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
160 TIFF images

8. EAP1042/21/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/21/2
Title:
Special Prayers
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Duwaaraŋ Kummaayariŋo. A short Mandinka Ajami manuscript, which contains special prayers and techniques used to address specific problems. The manuscript includes names of Prophets, the companions of Prophet Muḥammad, and angels. The manuscript was digitized at Hotel Nema-...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
13 TIFF images

9. EAP1042/21/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/21/3
Title:
Celebrating Prophet Muhammad
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Biniiboo. Contains a collection of several panegyric poems (Arabic: Madḥ) praising Prophet Muhammad. The poems celebrate his struggles, virtues, and success in the nascent days of Islam. They are written in Arabic with interlinear and marginal glosses in Mandinka Ajami and...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
409 TIFF images

10. EAP1042/21/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/21/4
Title:
Resolving Problems
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Jumaloo. Contains a collection of several small manuscripts with recipes and remedies to address people’s problems. The social preoccupations that the manuscripts seek to address include: infertility among women, how a man can make himself attractive to a woman he loves, s...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, Mandinka, and Wolof
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
36 TIFF images