BY
Cheikh Elkory Lekrame
The name of Bilad Shinqit (“Chinguettiland”) is used to specify the whole land between
Morocco and the Senegal River.Mauritania was always a key and essential link between Mediterranean and Black Africa. By the 18th century, when the trade reached its glory days, a few caravan towns in Mauritania, namely Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt, and Oualata, had become famous and prominent throughout the Islamic world for their religious scholars and their libraries. Today, these “desert libraries” are signified by several thousand manuscripts that document the development and growth of Islamic thought in Mauritania.
Two libraries, the Ould Habott in Chinguetti and the Dar al–Makhtutat in Oualata, are famous of their old manuscripts. The scholarly and literary tradition that grew out of it is documented by a remarkable and extraordinary manuscript heritage close to 40,000. They are clearly controlled by religious (theological, juridical, canonical, and hagiographical) works, although history, geography, language, literature, mathematics, astronomy, medicine are represented as well.
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