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Qadiri Community of Buh Kunta
By Maria Grosz-Ngate and Toba Diagne Haїdara
Estate of Buh Kunta
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Description: This set of documents from a file titled "Inheritance of Bou Kounta 1914-1915" lists the estate of Buh Kunta inventoried and valued after his death in 1914. It includes properties in Saint-Louis, Rufisque, Dakar, Tivaouane, and Ndiassane; animals (including oxen and cows, donkeys, camels, horses, goats); cash; and rental income. One document specifies the division of the inheritance; another one indicates that Buh Kunta's three eldest sons - Bekaye Kunta, Abdurahmane Kunta & Sidy Lamin Kunta - agree to pay the workers assisting with the settlement 3% of what is left of the estate.
Date: March 27, 1915
Date Range: 1910-1919
Location: Ndiassane, Thies, Senegal
Format: Text/jpeg
Language: French
Rights Management: For educational use only.
Contributing Institution: Archives Nationales du Senegal; Maria Grosz-Ngate; Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University
Digitizer: Maria Grosz-Ngate; MATRIX
Archive: Archives Nationales du Sénégal
Source: Archives Nationales du Senegal, dossier 041;documents dated March 26 & 27, 1915; April 1 & 7, 1915
Letter from administrator Godel
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Description: Tivaouane cercle administrator Godel informs the Lieutenant Governor of Senegal that, in accordance with the Governor's instructions, he has had a parcel of land demarcated that might be granted to Buh Kunta. The letter is accompanied by a sketch outlining the projected property [p. 3]. Administrator Godel promises to follow up with proposals for the placement of a well.
Date: January 6, 1911
Date Range: 1910-1919
Location: Tivaouane, Thies, Senegal
Format: Text/jpeg
Language: French
Rights Management: For educational use only.
Contributing Institution: Archives Nationales du Senegal; Maria Grosz-Ngate; Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University
Digitizer: Maria Grosz-Ngate
Archive: Archives Nationales du Sénégal
Source: Archives Nationales du Senegal, dossier 041. Letter dated January 6, 1911; stamped "arrived January 9, 1911".
Qadiriyya of Ndiassane, Kunta Spiritual Genealogy
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Courtesy of Makhtar Ndiaga Kone
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Spiritual Leadership after Buh KuntaCreator: Mouvement des Jeunes Khadres (Qadiriyya Youth Movement)
Description: Kunta spiritual genealogy and religious heritage. Top half of document shows the founder, Shaykh Buh Kunta, followed by the sons who succeeded him and their years in the khalifate. El Haj Mame Buh Mamadu Kunta, who became khalif on April 29, 2006, was the first of the grandsons to become khalif. The bottom half represents the spiritual chain that links the reigning khalif to the Kunta scholarly lineages of the Sahara desert down to the illustrious scholar and jurist Sidi Ahmed al-Bekkaï Kunta (d. 1514) and the earliest Kunta ancestor and, through him, to the family of the Prophet Mohamed. The second page is an Arabic version of the same document.
Date: 2006
Date Range: 2000-2009
Location: Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
Format: Text/jpeg
Language: French
Arabic
Arabic
Rights Management: For educational use only.
Contributing Institution: Maria Grosz-Ngate and Toba Diagne Haïdara; Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University
Digitizer: Maria Grosz-Ngate
Source: Makhtar (Njaga) Kone, President, Mouvement des Jeunes Khadres (Qadiriyya Youth Movement)
