Fighting the Greater Jihad

Babou, Cheikh Anta

doi:10.1353/book.7000

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“…The Sheikh Bamba's students and Murids played an important role in spreading his teachings and achieving the goals of his intellectual project. In this context, we may mention Ibra Faal (Babou 2007). 3 During the seven years of exile that Sheikh Bamba spent in Gabon, the Muridiyya under the leadership of Sheikh Faal managed to grow dynamically and financially, as the Murids established peanut farms and established commercial centers in Dakar and St. Louis.…”

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“…Sheikh Ahmed bin Muhammad bin Habibullah, known as Amadu Bamba, or the servant of the Messenger, is the most prominent founder of the Muridiyya order in Senegal (1853-1927, the (Babou 2007). The period in which Sheikh Ahmed bin Bamba's call appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century is marked by the end of the slave trade and the beginning of the colonial era in Africa.…”

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“…Senegal became Dar al Murid, located within Dar al Kufr. This Murid space was not in contestation with French colonialism; rather, it endeavored to achieve symbolic and cultural autonomy from the colonial realm (Babou 2007). Unlike many Sufi reformers, Bamba's Dar al Murid focused on the Islamic virtues of nonviolence and political neutrality.…”

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Sufi Islamic Discourse in Africa: From the Greatest Jihad to the Establishment of the African Caliphate

Hassan

2020

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In the nineteenth century, African Muslim societies were marked by the emergence of a reformist Sufi Islamic discourse aimed at changing and moving away from traditional Islamic practices. Although this discourse was influenced, to some extent, by external sources of inspiration, it was linked to the local African context. This study demonstrates that the reformist discourse of major Sufi figures such as Sheikh Amadu Bamba in Senegal and Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio in Nigeria reflects a number of common features of Islamic reform in Africa, yet their reform programs were shaped by the conditions of the local context. This research contribution aims to understand the actual role that the discourse of Sufi spirituality played—and still does—in the religious, economic, and political life of Muslim societies in Africa. This study has shown that despite the prevailing belief that Sufi discourse does not tend to politicize as it tries to maintain a safe distance away from matters of politics and governance in order to achieve its message of moral and spiritual purity, it may turn into violent radicalism as embodied by the jihadist Sufi experience in West Africa.

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Section: The Appeasing Sufi Discourse: Muridism In Senegal As a Modelmentioning

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Sufi Islamic Discourse in Africa: From the Greatest Jihad to the Establishment of the African Caliphate

Hassan

2020

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“…In fact, they are supporting him, as Mame Diarra Bousso did when, according to legend, she would miraculously appear after her death to console and encourage him in times of great need. 84 For Murid women in the procession, the acquisition of baraka is paramount. The parade is "special," Assatou announced above, because "we get a blessing [baraka] from walking."…”

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