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Futa Jallon and the Jakhanke Clerical Tradition

Futa Jallon and the Jakhanke Clerical Tradition FUTA JALLON AND THE JAKHANKE CLERICAL TRADITION Part II: Karamokho Ba of Touba in Guinea BY LAMIN SANNEH (University of Aberdeen, U.K.) In Part I of this study we looked at the ethnic and religious background to the history of Futa Jallon. In this section the life and work of Karamokho Ba is considered in detail, based on a chronicle of the Jabi-Gassama qabzlah to which Karamokho Ba himself belonged. Yet such was his stature that he was accorded universal recognition by the rest of the Jakhanke community. His concerns and achievements had deep roots in antiquity, and for his contem- poraries he came nearest to being what al-Hajj Salim Suware, the 13th century founder, was for his epoch, namely, a model of clerical independence and intellectual eminence. That explains why he has come down to us known only by his professional sobriquet, 'Karamokho Ba', 'the superlative scholar'. Yet the man whose life and teachings received unhesitating praise in his day and beyond has left us no works of his own, and what we have of him comes largely from the text of this chronicle. In spite of previous attempts to make this or similar texts available,' nowhere http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

Futa Jallon and the Jakhanke Clerical Tradition

Sanneh, Lamin
Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 12 (2): 105 – Jan 1, 1981
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© 1981 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4200
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10.1163/157006681X00079
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FUTA JALLON AND THE JAKHANKE CLERICAL TRADITION Part II: Karamokho Ba of Touba in Guinea BY LAMIN SANNEH (University of Aberdeen, U.K.) In Part I of this study we looked at the ethnic and religious background to the history of Futa Jallon. In this section the life and work of Karamokho Ba is considered in detail, based on a chronicle of the Jabi-Gassama qabzlah to which Karamokho Ba himself belonged. Yet such was his stature that he was accorded universal recognition by the rest of the Jakhanke community. His concerns and achievements had deep roots in antiquity, and for his contem- poraries he came nearest to being what al-Hajj Salim Suware, the 13th century founder, was for his epoch, namely, a model of clerical independence and intellectual eminence. That explains why he has come down to us known only by his professional sobriquet, 'Karamokho Ba', 'the superlative scholar'. Yet the man whose life and teachings received unhesitating praise in his day and beyond has left us no works of his own, and what we have of him comes largely from the text of this chronicle. In spite of previous attempts to make this or similar texts available,' nowhere

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Published: Jan 1, 1981

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