Beyond African orality : the Ajamī poetry of Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate / Fallou Ngom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ngom, Fallou

Contributor:

Ngom, Fallou, translator.

Series:

Religion in translation.

Oxford scholarship online.

Religion in translation

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Wolof

Subjects (All):

Jaxate, Mbay--Translations into English.

Jaxate, Mbay.

Jaxate, Mbay--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This text brings to English-speaking audiences the voice of one of sub-Saharan Africa's greatest Sufi poets: Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate of Senegal. Mbay Jaxate composed poems in his native Wolof tongue using an enriched form of the Arabic script called Ajami. As a moralist and social critic, his poems relentlessly promote the pursuit of spiritual and moral excellence, which he construed as the best investment for everyone to flourish in this life and achieve paradise in the hereafter. The sixty poems in this book make accessible for the first time to English readers his rich African Sufi insights.

Notes:

Translated from the Wolof.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 25, 2025).

Contains:

Jaxate, Sëriñ Mbay. Works. Selections. English.

ISBN:

0-19-780782-8

0-19-780780-1

OCLC:

1534435183