Collaboration, Modernity and Colonial Rule: Sidiyya Baba and Mauritania
By David Robinson
Books
click image to zoomCreator: Elbaz, Caroline
Dortes, Michel
Dortes, Michel
Contributing Institutions: David Robinson; MATRIX: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University
Description: This is a photo of a typical library of a marabout or cleric, with manuscripts and published books placed in the squares of the masonry. Shaikh Sidiyya al-Kabir and Shaikh Sidiyya Baba had vast libraries and systems for placing and finding the different kinds of material.
Date: 2000
Date Range: 2000-2009
Location: Mauritania
Format: Image/jpeg
Rights Management: For educational use only.
Digitizer: MATRIX
Source: Elbaz, Caroline. Mauritanie: Le Pays Du Million De Poètes. (Clichy, France?: Editions Larivière, 2000. ), before p. 7
