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Other works of Serigne Mor Kayre
Get PDFThe entire manuscript is available for download below as a single PDF file. Because of the large size of this manuscript, it is also available in two PDF files. In addition, each page is available as a separate, larger, JPG file. If higher-resolution JP2 files are needed (WARNING: files average 11-14MB in size), please contact [email protected].
Fieldwork Team: Dr. Fallou Ngom (PI), Cheikh Tidiane Fall (Co-applicant), Ablaye Diakite (Researcher), Birane Gassama (Researcher).
Technical Team: Roger Brisson (Head of Metadata Services, BU Libraries), Vika Zafrin (Institutional Repository Librarian, BU Libraries), Jack Ammerman (Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Open Access, BU Libraries), and Dr. Peter Quella.
This collection of Wolofal (Wolof Ajami) materials is copied as part of the EAP 334 Project (Digital Preservation of Wolof Ajami manuscripts of Senegal) led by Dr. Fallou Ngom in collaboration with WARA/WARC and Boston University Library. The project is funded by the British Library/Arcadia Endangered Archives.
Access Condition and Copyright: The materials are subject to copyright. Access is for research and educational purposes only. Materials are not to be reproduced without written permission.
Citation: Materials in this web edition may be cited as: Ngom, Fallou. 2011. African Ajami Library: EAP 334. Digital Preservation of Wolof Ajami Manuscripts of Senegal. Boston: Boston University Library: http://dcommon.bu.edu
For Inquires: Please, contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected])The material consists of Wolof Ajami poems (Wolofal) by Serigne Mor Kayre (1869-1951). The material is written in black ink. There are also insertions of Arabic words and phrases, including in openings and closings. The collection contains discussions on the qualities of Prophet Muhammad, the qualities of a genuine Murid disciple, discussions on the Tijaniyya and Qadiriyya Sufi orders, as well as recommendations for Murid disciples and their leaders.
Serigne Mor Kayre (1869-1951) was one of the earliest Murid Ajami scholars and poets. He was a member of the Tijaniyya Sufi order before becoming a Murid disciple when he met Ahmadou Bamba. His work includes eulogies of some Murid leaders, praises of Prophet Muhammad and Ahmadou Bamba's teachings, and devotional Sufi poetry, among others. His work has helped to disseminate Bamba's teachings and the Murid work ethics among the Wolof masses. His poetry has generated some Sufi songs, some of which are available on the internet today.
Serigne Mor Kayre is the author and scribe of the 2 original pages, but the copyist of the 74 photocopied pages of the work is unknown.
Mame Mor Kayre, the owner of the materials, is named after his grandfather Serigne Mor Kayre (1869-1951), the author the materials. He was born in 1978 in Khombole in the region of Thies. Mame Mor Kayre is currently a quranic teacher in Touba-Darou Khoudoss, Senegal. He received the materials from his older half-brother called Khadim Kayre, a quranic teacher and writer living in Dakar, Senegal.
Digitized on 27 November 2011.
The 74 handwritten pages copied are readable, but the 2 original pages are difficult to read due to their age.British Library (EAP 334
Some of the works of Serigne Mor Kayre
No full textDate created: unknown. The entire manuscript is available for download below as a single PDF file. Each page is also available as a separate, larger, JPG file. If higher-resolution JP2 files are needed (WARNING: files average 11-14MB in size), please contact [email protected].
Fieldwork Team: Dr. Fallou Ngom (PI), Cheikh Tidiane Fall (Co-applicant), Ablaye Diakite (Researcher), Birane Gassama (Researcher)
Technical Team: Roger Brisson (Head of Metadata Services, BU Libraries), Vika Zafrin (Institutional Repository Librarian, BU Libraries), Jack Ammerman (Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Open Access, BU Libraries), and Dr. Peter Quella.
This collection of Wolofal (Wolof Ajami) materials is copied as part of the EAP 334 Project (Digital Preservation of Wolof Ajami manuscripts of Senegal) led by Dr. Fallou Ngom in collaboration with WARA/WARC and Boston University Library. The project is funded by the British Library/Arcadia Endangered Archives.
Access Condition and Copyright: The materials are subject to copyright. Access is for research and educational purposes only. Materials are not to be reproduced without written permission.
Citation: Materials in this web edition may be cited as: Ngom, Fallou. 2011. African Ajami Library: EAP 334. Digital Preservation of Wolof Ajami Manuscripts of Senegal. Boston: Boston University Library: http://open.bu.edu
For Inquires: Please, contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected])These materials are a collection of Wolof Ajami (Wolofal) poems by Serigne Mor Kayre (1869-1951). Red and black ink are used in the first set of original manuscripts. The red ink is used to highlight key words and phrases. There are also insertions of Arabic words and phrases, including in opening and closing formulae. The collection contains a hagiography of Prophet Muhammad, his family members and his miracles; a discussion on the battle of Badr; a song dedicated to Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba; a discussion on the norms for the construction of a mosque; a tribute to Serigne Modou Moustapha Mbacke (the first khalifa of the Muridiyya order); a tribute to Serigne Moussa Ka (his fellow Murid disciple and poet); and a table of contents summarizing the author's key pieces of work, among others.
Materials consist of 17 pages of the original manuscript and 53 photocopies of some of Serigne Mor Kayre's work copied by hand. Serigne Mor Kayre is the author and scribe of the 17 original pages, but the copyist of the 53 photocopied pages of his work is unknown.
Digitized on 24 July 2011.
Due to the age and poor quality of the photocopy of some pages, some lines are a hard to read. Many of Mor Kayre's original works are lost.This collection of Wolofal (Wolof Ajami) materials is copied as part of the EAP 334 Project (Digital Preservation of Wolof Ajami manuscripts of Senegal) led by Dr. Fallou Ngom in collaboration with WARA/WARC and Boston University Library. The project is funded by the British Library/Arcadia Endangered Archives
Letter from Ois�n Ua Mor�in to Fr. O'Callaghan
No full textHolograph letter from Ois�n Ua Mor�in of The New Leader, 205 New Brunswick Street, Dublin, to Fr. O'Callaghan [Rome]. The author of the article is happy if his name is disclosed to Dr. O'Hagan and will be glad to be in communication with him; he is Fr. E. Carroll in Crayford, Kent
An investigation into the recent vegetation history of Great Wood, near Eggleston Co. Durham using fine resolution pollen analysis of Mor humus and relevant historical evidence.
Get PDFThis study investigated the recent vegetation history of an ancient woodland, Great Wood, near Eggleston Co. Durham which has been part of the lands of Eggleston Hall since at least 1614. Mor humus was extracted from two sites within the woodland canopy and consecutive 1cm samples were analysed from each sediment. The reasons for this fine resolution sampling was firstly, because the soil profiles were only between 14-20cms and only represented a time scale of a few hundred years, and secondly to provide fine temporal resolution to correspond with the fine spatial resolution obtainable under a closed canopy. Sediment analysis was undertaken to investigate the stratification of the soil in order to identify signs of disturbance. Mor # 1 proved to be highly stratified, whereas as mor # 2 was less stratified, possibly disturbed and had signs of charcoal at the lowest levels. It was therefore concluded that mor # 2 only represented part of the time scale that mor # 1 illustrated, as it was a more recently formed humus, the earlier part having been burnt away. An absolute time scale was not used but a relative time scale was assigned using documentary and anecdotal historical evidence. This took into account the development of the nearby village and the social and economic changes of the region, and also the association of the woodland with Eggleston Hall and the consequent utilisation of the woodland for timber and recreational purposes. The pollen record of mor # 1 was thought to represent the vegetation history from approximately 1750 to the present time, whereas the pollen record of mor # 2 shows the vegetation history from the late nineteenth century onwards. This time scale was deduced from the following:1. There were signs of a more open canopy, due to a greater proportion of herb pollen to tree pollen, and evidence of pollen representing a more regional source area such as Triticum and possibly Calluna. This was thought to represent 1750- 1820 when tillage increased in importance and there were reports of arable activity in the adjoining townfield probably causing a reduction in grazing pressure in the wood and allowing regeneration. This was promoted by the Enclosure Act in 1785, an attempt to establish mineral rights and to make the dales more commercially viable for agriculture and was a result of marginal land being used for tillage during the Napoleonic wars. However, signs of succession and canopy closure began to develop and there were also some signs of management deduced from Fagus pollen appearing and documentary evidence of the path construction through the woods.2. The herb pollen to tree pollen ratio began to fall and canopy closure continued but was not thought to be complete, due to selective management and extraction of timber. The disappearance of Triticum was believed to be due to a change in agricultural trends. Fagus pollen which was quite significant, disappeared abruptly due to the trees in the vicinity of the site being removed.3. Complete canopy closure shown by a consistently high tree pollen to herb pollen ratio with Quercus dominating, arose when management of the wood was abandoned in the 1920's.The fine resolution obtained, both temporally and spatially, demonstrated that mor humus was a useful medium for pollen analysis and with consideration of the underlying principles and mechanisms, meaningful interpretation of the pollen record was possible. Problems encountered with extraction of samples and during processing were discussed
and H‐MOR Catalysts
Get PDFA combined catalyst comprising TiO2-supported Re (Re(1)/TiO2; Re=1 wt\%) and H-MOR (SiO2/Al2O3=90) was found to promote the methylation of benzene using CO2 and H2. This catalytic system exhibited high performance with regard to the synthesis of methylated benzenes and gave high yields of total methylated products (up to 52 \% benzene-based yield and 42 \% CO2-based yield) under the reaction conditions employed in this study (pCO2=1 MPa; pH2=5 MPa; T=250 °C; t=20 h) in a batch reactor. Catalyst screening demonstrated that a combination of Re(1)/TiO2 and H-MOR (SiO2/Al2O3=90) exhibited superior performance compared to other combinations of supported metal catalysts and zeolites in terms of both yield and selectivity for methylated benzenes
Die Literarisierung des entzifferten Ägypten. Wissenschaft und Fiktion im Roman Uarda (1877) von Georg Ebers (1837-1898)
No full textIn the context of nineteenth-century orientalism, the narrative production of the Berlin-born Egyptologist George Ebers (1837-1898), whose novels fall within the category of Professorenroman, plays a significant role. Standing on the confines between literature and historiography, Ebers’ works set in Egypt gave rise to an authentic mania for Egypt and made the people, events, habits and customs of the ancient country of the Nile, which at that time were being studied by the first generation of German Egyptologists (Lepsius, Brugsch), familiar to a vast public of readers; but the literary transposition of the ancient Egyptian world was also an opportunity to write about the burning religous, political and social questions of the day. The analysis of the successful novel Uarda, printed in thousands of copies, intends not only to focus on Ebers’s Weltanschauung, but also to contribute to rediscovering a writer who, although not outstanding from a literary point of view, represents a significant part of the Wilhelmian 'Zeitgeist'
Understanding Gender Equity in Author Order Assignment
Get PDFWomen remain underrepresented in many fields in computer science, particularly at higher levels. In academia, success and promotion are influenced by a researcher's publication record. In many fields, including computer science, multi-author papers are the norm. Evidence from other fields shows that author order norms can influence the assignment of credit. We conduct interviews of students and faculty in human-computer interaction (HCI) and machine learning (ML) to determine factors related to assignment of author order in collaborative publication. The outcomes of these interviews then informed metrics of interest for a bibliometric analysis of gender and collaboration in research papers published from 1996 to 2016 in three top HCI and ML conferences. Based on our findings, we make recommendations for assignment of credit in multi-author papers and interpretation of author order, particularly in regard to how this area affects women
Design of a Partial Discharge Test Platform
No full textDesign of a Partial Discharge Test Platform author: Daniel Harmsen thesis advisor (mentor): Dr. Armando Rodrigo Mor abstract: Partial discharge (PD) measurements are an effective tool for insulation diagnostics and assessment. Therefore, a good understanding of these PD measurements is an essential part of an electrical engineer’s background knowledge. During this research project a PD test platform was designed and build for electrical PD detection. The setup included artificially created defects for six different types of PDs, with origins in positive and negative corona, internal discharge, floating electrodes, free-moving particles and surface discharge. These defects were designed to have a partial discharge inception voltage (PDIV) of around 10kV, and could easily be connected or disconnected from the setup. Therefore, it was possible to measure individual defects or a combination of them. This PD test platform was used during this research project to characterize the different PD types (single and multiple), and as a check for testing new clustering and pattern recognition techniques. In addition, the platform could also be used as a test platform for educational purposes and to train people and test equipment. In this thesis research project, the “initial step” towards PD defect origin recognition for AC voltage without any phase dependency was conducted with the use of time-resolved partial discharge (TRPD) analysis. This thesis shows that it is possible to conduct the time analysis and recognition for AC voltage for the artificially created defects. From the analysis in this thesis, it can be concluded that the TRPD analysis for PD recognition under AC voltage is as good as, or even better than, phase-resolved partial discharge (PRPD) analysis. For most of the data analysed, the TRPD analysis provides the same results compared to the PRPD analysis. However, further checking is needed, such as validating the findings with mathematical models. The thesis goals are to build a setup suitable for the research, determining the optimal combination of hardware/software to discriminate among different types of defects, and to realize experiments to validate the design.Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer ScienceDC&E
"La parola di un uomo onesto significa ciò che dice". Romano Guardini lettore di Rilke
No full textLa visione dell’esistenza che Rainer Maria Rilke ha rappresentato nei versi impervi delle Elegie Duinesi, una delle vette della lirica del Novecento, è stata oggetto di una lunga, rigorosa ed illuminante meditazione da parte di Romano Guardini. Per ricordare il grande intellettuale, teologo e filosofo cattolico italo-tedesco in occasione dei 50 anni dalla sua scomparsa (1968-2018), il contributo anticipa in estrema sintesi alcuni dei contenuti che saranno sviluppati nel volume degli scritti rilkiani di Guardini curato da chi scrive e in uscita nel 2019 per i tipi di Morcelliana. Tre sono gli aspetti messi a fuoco: dopo aver illustrato le ragioni didattico-accademiche che portarono Guardini ad occuparsi di Rilke e dopo aver tracciato le linee essenziali della sua ermeneutica, vengono individuati alcuni snodi tematici che indussero Guardini ad una presa di posizione molto critica sulla poesia rilkiana, specchio drammatico e doloroso della dissoluzione dell’uomo modernoThe reflection on human existence described by Rainer Maria Rilke in the arduous verses of the Duineser Elegien, one of the highest expressions of 20th century poetry, has been the object of a long, rigorous and illuminating meditation by Romano Guardini. To remember the great Italian-German Catholic intellectual, theologian and philosopher on the 50th anniversary of his death (1968-2018), this contribution anticipates some of the contents developed in the collection of Guardini's writings on Rilke edited by the author, which will be published in 2019 by Morcelliana. Three are the main elements highlighted here: the academic and didactic reasons that led Guardini to reflect on Rilkes’ work; the essential outline of his hermeneutics; finally, the main reasons that caused Guardini to take a very critical stand towards Rilkes’ poetry, which represents a painful and dramatic reflection on the annihilation of the modern man
Dunes as source of sediment for Delft3D-MOR
No full textDue to natural processes, such as tides and waves, the coastal area is continuously changing. Process-based morphodynamic area modelling is one of the relatively new tools to predict these changes in the coastal area. One of these process-based models is Delft3D-MOR, developed by WLIDELFT HYDRAULICS. However, computations on a long time-scale show unrealistic predictions of the bottom development near the waterline. In a numerical model (e.g. Delft3D-MOR) the waterline is a discontinuity. The model stops computing transports just seawards of the waterline; after this, on the dry beach, transports are zero. In reality, sand will be transported from the dunes to the surf zone in a situation of erosion. Because this transport does not occur in the numerical model, a "hole" develops in front ofthe waterline. Because of the scour hole, too little wave energy is dissipated and there is still wave energy at the last point seaward of the waterline. Less and less dissipation and associated transports take place in the model, so the erosion process stops too soon. The aim of this study is then, to develop a model, applicable within Delft3D-MOR, that describes the sediment exchange between the surf zone and the dry beach and dunes. The model that is applied in Delft3D-MOR, searches the whole modelled area for situations where a wet and active cell neighbours a dry and inactive cell. At this point the sediment extrapolation approach of Steetzel is used. In this model the deposited sediment on the beach in an accretion situation is assumed to be directly transported to the higher parts of the profile. The model boundaries are at the last active/wet cell and the first top in cross-shore direction. The overall conclusion from the four used test cases is, that the adaption of the dry bed transports is successful and allows the exchange of sediment between the surf zone and the dry areas. However, the modelling of the transport processes under water is still rather inaccurate.Civil Engineering and Geoscience
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