Karamokho Ba
Fode Kaba Doumbouya | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1734 Dide |
| Died | unknown |
| Occupation | Marabout |
| Father | Mouhamadou Fatouma Diabi-Gassama |
Salim Karamba Diabi-Gassama, better known as Karamokho Ba, was an 18th-century Jakhanke marabout and religious scholar who founded the important scholarly center of Touba in Guinea.
Life
Karamokho Ba was born in the village of Dide, in what is now the Bala commune in Senegal. He was descended from a companion of Al-Hajj Salim Suwari.[1] He founded Touba, on the main axis between the Imamate of Futa Jallon and Kaabu, in 1815.[2] His students later spread all over the region, as far as Badibu.[3]
References
- ^ Mane, Mamadou. Le Kaabu (XIIIe-XIXe siècle), Une des grandes entités historiques de l’espace mandingue de Sénégambie. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
- ^ Giesing, Cornelia; Vydrine, Valentin, eds. (2007). Ta:rikh Mandinka de Bijini (Guinée-Bissau): La mémoire des Mandinka et des Sòoninkee du Kaabu (in French). Boston: Leiden. pp. 12, 185.
- ^ Ogorodnikova, Darya (Jul 25, 2016). "Exploring Paratexts in Old Mande Manuscripts". In Ciotti, Giovanni; Lin, Hang (eds.). Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts: Perspectives from Paratexts. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 4–17. doi:10.1515/9783110479010. ISBN 978-3-11-047314-8. OCLC 1029079632. S2CID 192072373.