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21. 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

22. EAP1042/11/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/11/7
Title:
Clarifiying Religious Precepts
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Diinoo Koyindiraŋo. The manuscript is a photocopy from the original written in Arabic. It is a manual for understanding Islam. It deals with the history of the faith before, during, and after the life of Prophet Muḥammad. It praises God and celebrates Prophet Muḥammad as G...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
68 TIFF images

23. EAP1042/12/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/12/1
Title:
Mandinka Ajami Poetry
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Suukuwo. The manuscript is a copy of the original written in Mandinka Ajami by Arfang Boubacar Dabo, also known as Arfang Sitookoto Dabo. Sitookoto Dabo is the most famous Mandinka Ajami poet in Senegambia. His poems are widely known and chanted in Mandinka communities in ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
8 TIFF images

24. EAP1042/12/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/12/2
Title:
Panegyric Poetry and Medicinal Text
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Biniiboo aniŋ Booroo. Consists of two manuscripts. The first is an Arabic panegyric poem celebrating the life and work of Prophet Muḥammad, which contains numerous Arabic glosses. The original author is Alpha Diadji, a famous Mandinka scholar. The second document is a bili...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
109 TIFF images

25. EAP1042/14/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/14/1
Title:
Biography of the Great Scholar
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Moor Baa la Taariixoo. The manuscript is a biography of the Mandinka scholar called Fode Koule Sylla (1752-1843), also known as Sylla Baa (Mandinka: The Great Sylla). This manuscript is based on the Arabic original that Fode Koule Sylla wrote. It was translated in Mandinka...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mandinka
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
4 TIFF images

26. EAP1042/16/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/16/1
Title:
Praising The Lord
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Mansoo Tentu. This manuscript is a copy of the original Mandinka Ajami song written by the great Mandinka poet, Sitookoto Dabo. Sitookota is one of the most famous Mandinka religious scholars and poets of Senegambia. He authored numerous poems in Mandinka Ajami that are st...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mandinka
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

27. EAP1042/17/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/17/1
Title:
الاخضري
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Al-Akhdarī in Mandinka Ajami. The manuscript is a Mandinka Ajami exegesis of the popular Malikī jurisprudence (figh) text known as Al-Akhdarī, authored by the Algerian scholar, Abū Yazīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr bin Muḥammad bin ʿĀmir. Similar interpretations ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
166 TIFF images

28. EAP1042/17/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/17/2
Title:
Mandinka Poetry on Current Issues
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Balukuu Suukuwoo. The manuscript is a Mandinka Ajami poem dealing with current issues in Mandinka society. Bafode highlights the social problems he identified in his society and urges people to promote education and literacy in their own language as Europeans do. During hi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
4 TIFF images

29. EAP1042/17/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/17/3
Title:
تفسير الجلالين
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Tafsīr al-Jalālayn (Sample). The bilingual Arabic-Mandinka Ajami document is a sample of Bafode’s Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, an exegesis of the Quran, which is modeled on the work of a teacher and his student who are both called Jalāl: Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī (died in 1459) and h...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
55 TIFF images

30. EAP1042/17/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1042/17/4
Title:
تفسير الجلالين
Scope & Content:
Transliterated title: Tafsīr al-Jalālayn in Mandinka Ajami (Complete Quran). The Mandinka Ajami manuscript is Bafode’s Tafsīr al-Jalālayn of the entire Quran in Mandinka Ajami. It is modeled on the exegesis of the Quran by a teacher and his student who are both called Jalāl: Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Mandinka
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1243 TIFF images