Alphousseyni Diante Manuscript Collection
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Item Kalifa la Mawluudoo: Celebrating Prophet Muḥammad's BirthdayKalifa, MouhamadouThe manuscript is a photocopy of a poem that the owner calls Kalifa la Mawluudoo. It is a hagiographic poem that recounts the story of Prophet Muḥammad, beginning before his birth and ending after his death. It is chanted during the celebration of Prophet Muḥammad’s birthday. The original was authored by Mouhamadou Kalifa Djiddah, one of the former teachers of the manuscript owner (Alphousseyni Diante). It was copied from the original by Arfang Ousmane Drame.Item Biniiboo: Celebrating Prophet Muḥammad (Mandinka)Diante, Alphousseyni (Grandfather)The manuscript is a recent copy of a panegyric poem (Mandinka: Biniiboo). It praises Prophet Muḥammad. It is written in classical Arabic with extensive glosses in Arabic and Mandinka Ajami.Item Muusaa la Taarikoo aniŋ Suukuwoo: The Story of Moses and Religious PoetryDiante, Alphousseyni (Grandfather); Faty, Arfang BakaryContains two old manuscripts written in classical Arabic. The first one is a prose text with Ajami glosses. The themes discussed in it include the story of Moses and his conversations with God. The second manuscript is a classical Arabic poem that praises God and Prophet Muḥammad written by a Mandinka scholar called Arfang Bakary Faty. The manuscript has extensive Arabic glosses and some Ajami glosses.Item Jante la Kandoolu Kitaaboolu IV: Diante’s Bilingual Collection IVDiante, Alphousseyni (Grandfather); Bamba Mbacke, Cheikh AhmadouContains 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.Item Biniiboo: Celebrating Prophet Muḥammad (Soninke)Diante, Alphousseyni (Grandfather)The manuscript is written in classical Arabic with extensive glosses in Soninke Ajami. It is inspired from the poem Al-Burda (The Mantle) authored by the thirteenth-century Egyptian Sufī, Al-Busīrī. The manuscript praises Prophet Muḥammad and discusses life, death, heaven, and the judgement day, among other topics.Item Jante la Kandoolu Kitaaboolu III: Diante’s Bilingual Collection IIIDiante, Alphousseyni (Grandfather)Contains a collection of various manuscripts, written by different hands on a variety of papers. The texts include prose and poetry. They are written in classical Arabic and include extensive Arabic and Soninke Ajami glosses. The themes discussed in the manuscripts include life after death, angels, and ḥadīth (Islamic prophetic traditions).Item Fulakaŋ Suukuwoo: Fula Ajami PoetrySadiq, TijaniThe manuscript is a panegyric poem that praises Prophet Muḥammad in the Fula language. The owner acquired the manuscript during his research in Casamance. Mandinka scholars like the owner cross ethnic and linguistic boundaries in their quest for knowledge. The manuscript highlights the intellectual exchanges between Mandinka scholars and their Fula counterparts and the tradition of multilingualism and multiliteracy in Arabic, Mandinka, and Fula Ajami among some Senegambian Mandinka scholars.Item Duwaaraŋ Kummaayariŋo: A Special PrayerDiante, Alphousseyni (Grandfather)The beginning of the manuscript is written in classical Arabic and the rest is written in a special incantatory language that serves for protection. Only the incantatory language is vocalized with red ink.Item Jante la Kandoolu Kitaaboolu II: Diante’s Bilingual Collection IIContains a collection of various manuscripts, written by different hands on a variety of papers. They are written in classical Arabic and contain extensive Soninke Ajami glosses. The subjects discussed in the manuscripts include tawḥid (English: oneness of God), the attributes of God, and stories about Prophet Muḥammad.Item Jante la Kandoolu Kitaaboolu I: Diante’s Bilingual Collection IContains a collection of various manuscripts, written by different hands on a variety of papers. The documents are written in classical Arabic and include Arabic, Soninke, and Mandink Ajami glosses. The materials deal with Islamic subjects (including stories of Prophet Muḥammad) and contain a numerological formula.Item Alkuraan Fasaroo: The Quran with GlossesDiante, Alphousseyni (Grandfather)An old copy of the Quran, which has numerous glosses in Arabic and Soninke. It was written during the time when Soninke was the language of many Islamic scholars and educators in Casamance. Mandinka scholars, who were students of the Soninke, later developed their own Ajami writing system following the tradition of their Soninke teachers and subsequently wrote glosses and translated texts from classical Arabic and Soninke into Mandinka.Item Images of manuscript owner Alphousseyni Diante(2018-07-04) Ngom, IbrahimaImages of manuscript owner Alphousseyni Diante in Kontecounda, Kolda, Senegal, for the manuscript digitization work done in July 2018.