ABSTRACT
Although al-Hajj Salim took great care to establish an institutional framework for educational and other types of clerical activity to continue after his death, he remained in his lifetime the primary and overriding influence in Jakhanke clericalism. The emergence of a durable clerical core in Jakhanke Islam derived from the structural and organisational patterns he had established at Bambukhu. Oral traditions trace the origins of the Jakhite, also known as Kabba, Jakhanke to a certain Hamjatou, about whose identity there is considerable doubt. Many of the Jakhite Jakhanke settled in the general area of Senegambia: at Tyankoye and Samecouta in Niokholo, Madinacouta in eastern Futa Jallon, and Dianna and Jilani in Bundu. The Jabi-Gassama trace their origin to one Shucaibou, better known as Mama Sambou Gassama. He is said to have been a contemporary of al-Hajj Salim.
