Beyond African Orality: The 'Ajami Poetry of Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate - Hardcover
by Fallou Ngom
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Availability:In StockContributor:Fallou NgomSeries:AAR Religion in TranslationPublish date:9/26/2025Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197807798ISBN-10:197807798UPC:9780197807798Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Islam, TheologyBook Topic:History, SufiSize:8.90 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCRACGYXR3
Beyond African Orality: The 'Ajami Poetry of Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate
Beyond African Orality offers the first English translation and interpretation of sixty Wolof Ajami poems (Wolof written with an enriched form of the Arabic script) by Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate (c. 1876-1947), a follower of the Senegalese Muridiyya Sufi order founded by Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba Mbàkke (1853-1927). Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate was one of the greatest Sufi poets of Africa -- a wise moralist and an astute...
Series: AAR Religion in Translation
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197807798ISBN-10:197807798UPC:9780197807798Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Islam, TheologyBook Topic:History, SufiSize:8.90 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCRACGYXR3
Fallou Ngom is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. His research focuses on African 'Ajami literatures (African languages written in Arabic script). He has held Fulbright, ACLS, and Guggenheim fellowships. His work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the US Department of Education, and the British Library Endangered Archives Programme. His book,...
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