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Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal: The Murid Order

Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal: The Murid Order

Hardcover

Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, Book 32

Literary CriticismReligion General Islam

ISBN10: 1580462685
ISBN13: 9781580462686
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
Examines through the use of Murid oral and written sources the creation of an alternative modernity as an understanding of historical change by Sufi notables and disciples.

The Murid order, founded in Senegal in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, grew into a major Sufi order during the colonial period and is now among the most recognizable of the Sufi orders in Africa. Murids have spread the voice of Islam and Africa in concert halls and on the airwaves through pop singers -- especially Youssou N'Dour -- and the image of Shaykh Amadu Bamba M'Backé, the founding saint of the order, often used to grace the covers ofworks concerning Islam, African culture, abolition, and European colonization.

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