Jakhanke

Lamin Sanneh is the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University. Sanneh was born and raised in Gambia. After studying at the University of Birmingham and the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, he earned his doctorate in Islamic History at the University of London.

• Introduction: Historical Interpretation and sources 1. the Birth of the Jakhanke Islamic Clerical Tradition . c1200-c.1500 2. the emergence fo the Core Clans of Jakhanke Clerics c.1200-c.1700 3. Jakhanke Centres in Bundu c.1700-c1890 4. Momodou-Lamin Darame and Patterns of Jakhanke Dispersion in Senegambia: The 19th Century 5. The Jakhanke in Futa Jallon: The 19th Century 6. Touba and the Colonial Misfortune: The Expropriation of Touba's Clerical Privilege 1905-11 7. Jakhanke Educational Enterprise 8. Prayers, Dreams and Religious Healing 9. Slavery, Islam and the Jakhanke 10. Conclusions