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Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913 (New African Histories)
Fighting the Greater Jihad Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal 18531913 - New African Histories
Author: Cheikh Anta Babou
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, and Wolof, Fighting the Greater Jihad ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780821417652
ISBN-10: 0821417657
Publication Date: 10/15/2007
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Ohio University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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