I'm writing this page in English to present it to international readers, and also because my French is too worse.
Sénégal
A new and beautiful Homepage for Sénégal online:
A map of Sénégal:
and of Dakar and the suburbs:
And the offical website of Saint-Louis:
A higly recommended Hotel at the Petite Côte:
A Hotel with a wonderful beach in Dakar:
A Hotel located in Ourossogui near Matam in Fouta Eastern region:
... you can book by fon, fax and web page!
The newspapers from Dakar are daily fresh in the web:
Radio stations from Sénégal which can be heard worldwide:
A sénégalesian Web Portal with forum (in French):
A great webpage with Forum, News, SMS into Sénégal Mobile Networks:
Wolof is beside of the official language French the most spoken language in Sénégal.
A Dictionary English-Wolof in .pdf-format (619 k):
the large mosquee in Dakar
Lac Rosé in Sénégal
FulBe and Toucouleur (Haalpulaar)
Links:
The history of the FulBe Jihaads by Oumar Taal in the 19. century was detailled described by David Robinson. The whole work, published 1985 in Oxford, was also presented on the pulaaku.net pages:
I tried to find a structure of the FulBe/Toucouleur dialects:
The word Pulaaku has a very special meaning:
I started a description to give an idea about the Toucouleur Empire of Segou:
The Tariqa Tijaniyya is a major element in the history of the Haalpulaar:
Al Hadj Oumar Taal
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The palace of Al-Shaikh Ahmadou in Segou
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As far as I know there is one Dictionary Pulaar-English / English-Pulaar available:
written by Dr. Mamadou Niang, published by Hippocrene Books, New York 1997
I found also a reprint of a dictionary Poular-French, published 1967 in London:
- Henri Gaden: "Le Poular - Dialecte Peul du Fouta Sénégalais", Tome second: Lexique Poular-Francais
Originally published in Paris 1914. I only got the second book.
This book is from my point of view the best description of the history of Fuuta Tooro, written in Pulaar and in English:
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Moustapha Kane/ David Robinson: "The Islamic Regime of Fuuta Tooro", Michigan 1984
I'm describing this unique book on a separate webpage:
I also found unique literature in German concerning the history of the Toucouleur/FulBe:
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Tirmiziou Diallo "Der Theokratische Fulbe-Staat Fuuta-Jaloo", doctoral thesis Freie Universitaet Berlin 1979
Other excellent books are:
B.O. Oloruntimehin described the Toucouleur Empire of Segou between 1851 and 1893:
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B.O. Oloruntimehin "The Segu Tukulor Empire", London 1972
Yves Saint-Martin described the period from 1846 until 1893 in French:
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Yves Saint-Martin "L'Empire Toucouleur et la France - un demi-siècle de relations diplomatiques", Dakar 1967
Regarding the FulBe Empire in Massina (Mali) Bintou Sanankoua describes the history in the 19th century in French:
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Bintou Sanankoua "Un empire peul au XIXe siècle - La Diina du Maasina", Paris 1990
The history of Fuuta Tooro, translated from Arabian documents:
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Sire-Abbas-Soh (Translation and addendum by Maurice Delafosse) "Chroniques du Foûta Sénégalais", Paris 1913
African Science:
The famous Sénégalesian scientist and author Cheikh Anta Diop - who gave his name for the University of Dakar - brought all his research together in his final book:
- Cheikh Anta Diop "Civilization or Barbarism", English print New York 1991; original French version " Civilisation ou Barbarie", Paris 1981
Islam in Germany
Different to most translations of the Qur'an is the approach of Amir Zaidan. He wrote an explanation of Qur'an in German language, which means he translated the Suras but didn't translated a lot of Arabic words which he explained in the glossary:
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Amir M. A. Zaidan "At-Tafsir", Offenbach/Germany 2000, ISBN 3-934659-01-2
Online-Shop for books about Islam in German Language (and Turkce):
Sufi-Soul is a special type of music and often played in Kall-Soetenich in the Northern Eifel in Germany. The place is called 'Osmanische Herberge':
