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The Jakhanke are a caste of Islamic scholars and teachers that formed among the Soninke ethnic group in the Ghana
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                                               Shaykhan Mustafa Briggs and Imam Fode Drame

Empire in Mali, and have a near-thousand year legacy of practicing and spreading Islam in West Africa. They form part of the larger Mande ethnic group, which also includes the Mandinka, Bambara and Dioula peoples, and they are formed of several groups of families who had devoted themselves to the study and teaching of Islamic sciences, and developed an extensive curriculum focused on the Maliki School of Law and mastery of the Qur’an. They eventually moved out of the capital cities and formed their own towns and villages in the countryside, where they lived a self-subsistent Islamic lifestyle based on farming, travel, and study, and were responsible for spreading Islam across most of West Africa.


A hidden gem, and a product of this amazing legacy is Imam Fode Drame who I was blessed to spend time with recently in Vancouver, Canada. He is a Gambian Jakhanke scholar who not only mastered the Quran in his youth, and went onto memorize momentous texts such as The Risala of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani, Maqamat al-Hariri, The Diwan of the Six Poets (Shu'ara as-Sitta) and The Ishriniya of Al-Fazazi as a teenager. He then continued to learn Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, English, French and even Ancient Egyptian in his early adulthood, and is currently working on a translation of the Qur’an in Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics (which I was able to witness him writing first hand).

Meeting Imam Fode Drame was an incredibly humbling and inspiring experience, and serves as a powerful reminder that there are countless hidden gems within our ummah, individuals who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of knowledge and the propagation of Islam. Their stories, talents, and contributions are often hidden from the mainstream, yet their impact on the communities they serve is immense. It was also amazing to realize that not only did he attend the same high school as my mother, but my neighbors in The Gambia are actually also his cousins!

"And how many signs in the heavens and the earth do they pass by, yet they turn away from them?" (Quran 12:105)

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