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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Babou, Cheikh Anta Mbacké
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2007.
Series:New African histories series.
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Online Access:Texto completo