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Fighting the greater jihad : Amadu Bamba and the founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913 /

In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in Arabic, French...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Babou, Cheikh Anta Mbacké
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2007.
Colección:New African histories series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Islam, society, and power in the Wolof states
  • The Mbakke: the foundations of family traditions
  • The emergence of Amadu Bamba, 1853-95
  • The founding of the Muridiyya
  • Murid conflict with the French colonial administration, 1889-1902
  • Slow path toward accommodation I: the time of rapprochement
  • Slow path toward accommodation II: making Murid space in colonial Bawol
  • Conclusion.