Cette premiere edition critique d'un manuscrit ecrit en arabe et mandinka focalise l'importance des communautes mandinka et jakhanke dans la construction et la preservation de la memoire collective de l' "empire" paien du Kaabu en Senegambie. This is the very first scholarly publication of an arabographic manuscript in Mandinka language revealing also the importance of the Mandinka and Jakhanka clerical diaspora in the making of the history of the pagan "empire" of Kaabu in the Senegambia.