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| Title: | Al-majmu' al-nafis: perspectives on the origins of the Muslim torodbe of Senegal from the writings of Shaykh Musa Kamara |
| Author: | Hilliard, Constance |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | Islam et sociétés au Sud du Sahara |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Pages: | 175-186 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Senegal |
| Subjects: | manuscripts biobibliographies (form) |
| About person: | Muusa Kamara (1864-1945) |
| Abstract: | The literary works written in Arabic by Shaykh Musa Kamara of Senegal (1864-1945) offer what is perhaps the most sizable unpublished reservoir of indigenous intellectual history and commentary existing today in West Africa. The present article contains excerpts in English translation of his 'Al-majm¯u' al-naf¯is sirran wa 'al¯aniyatan 'an ba'.d al-s¯ad¯at al-bai.d¯aniyya wa al-sud¯aniyya' (The Precious Collection, Secret and Public, on some White and Black Notables), a handwritten manuscript containing 268 pages, recto-verso, which was completed in 1931 and which is held in the Fonds Shaykh Moussa Kamara at the Institut fondamental Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. The single most developed topic of the document is the formation and composition of the Islamic clerisy or 'torodbe' of the Middle Valley region of the Senegal River, who represent the pivotal component in the dynamic of Islamic conversion that swept an immense section of West Africa in the 18th and 19th century. Other subjects treated include historical sketches of the Mauritanian clans taken from the work of Shaykh Sidiyya Baba, a historical treatise on Futa Jallon in Guinea, and a geographical description of Futa Toro. Notes, ref. |
