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Subject:	Re: Africanization of Islamic ritual or Islamization of African Culture
From:	Ylva Hernlund <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 4 Jun 1999 07:37:21 -0700
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usually "naso" is described in English as "Koranic inkwashes."
Trimingham writes rather extensively about this in "Islam in West Africa."
Also Schaeffer's ethnography of the Mandika (Mandinko:  The Ethnography of
a West African Holy Land).  But now we need a Gambian
perspective...Bassss, are you out there? :)  Best, Ylva

On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Malanding S. Jaiteh wrote:

> Folks,
> I am very curious about the origins of two culturally important items in the Senegambia region. These are "NASO" and "SAFO" both Mandingka words. Safo being JUJU (English?) TE-RE (Wollof) and NASO is Saafara (Wollof). I do not know the English word for "naso". Are these items some form of Africanization of Islamic rituals or Islamization of the African culture?
>
> Malanding Jaiteh
>

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