Muslim brotherhoods of Senegal
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This is a list of Muslim groups in Senegal (and also The Gambia). They are active Muslim organizations that can also be found in many other parts of Africa and the Islamic world.
The three largest are:
- The Xaadir (Qādiriyya), the oldest, originally founded in Baghdad by the Sufi mystic Abdul Qādir al-Jilānī in the 12th Century, now pan-Islamic, spread to Senegal in the 18th Century.
- The Tijaniyyah, the largest in membership, founded in Fez, Morocco by the Algerian born marabout Sīdī 'Aḥmad at-Tijānī.
- The Mourides, the richest and most active, founded by marabout Cheikh Amadou Bamba (1850-1927) of French West Africa, now Senegal.
- The Layene are a smaller sect, centered at Yoff north of Dakar.
[edit] References
- Delafosse, Maurice (1912) Haut-Sénégal-Niger E. Larose, Paris, OCLC 664428 in French
- Villalón, Leonardo Alfonso (1995) Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, ISBN 0-521-46007-7
- Harrison, Christopher (1988) France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, ISBN 0-521-35230-4
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