The monarch uses the country’s long Sufi tradition to help its foreign policy and neutralise its enemies, The effort by King Mohammed VI to extend Moroccan influence in West Africa depends in part on the country's historic Sufi ties with turuq (brotherhoods or orders) across the region. This web page is from the branch of this tariqa which is headed by Shaykh Hassan Cisse, who is based in …

West African Sufi. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Author : Louis Brenner ISBN : 0520050088 Genre : Religion File Size : 45.70 MB Format : … West African Sufi: The Religious Heritage and Spiritual Search of Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal. Excerpted from West African Sufi: The Religious Heritage and Spiritual Search of Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal by Louis Brenner (London: C. Hurst, 1984). Amazon.com: west african sufi. Skip to main content. WEST AFRICAN SUFI Download West African Sufi ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format. Click Download or Read Online button to West African Sufi book pdf for free now. One of the first orders was the Yasawi order, named after Khwajah Ahmad Yasavi(d. 562 AH/ 1166 AD), from the city of Yasi, where his tomb is located. in Morocco, and it has many followers in West Africa and Sudan. Most orders in West Africa emphasize the role of a spiritual guide, marabout or possessing supernatural power, regarded as an Africanization of Islam. Muslim tariqah (Sufi religious brotherhoods) are one of the main organizing forms of West African Islam, and with the spread of Sufi ideas into the area, the marabout's role combined with local practices throughout Senegambia, the Niger River Valley, and the Futa Jallon.Here, Sufi believers follow a marabout, elsewhere known as a murshid "Guide". Louis Brenner (Author) › Visit Amazon's Louis Brenner Page. Try Prime All Go Search EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Cart. Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam, has a strong religious presence throughout much of Muslim West Africa and the (Arabic ṭarīqa, pl. The central argument of this book is that West African Sufism is legible only with an appreciation of centuries of Islamic knowledge specialization in the region.

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The order is one of the most widespread of the Sufi orders in the Islamic world, and has a huge presence in Central Asia, Pakistan, Turkey, Balkans and much of East and West Africa. Th e Tijani Sufi tariqa was founded by Ahmad al-Tijani, who lived in the 18th-19th Century C.E. Today it is called Turkestan Sufi orders (turuq)crystallized as institutions beginning around the 6th century AH/ 12th century CE.

West African Sufi documents the evolution of this tragic crisis, but more important, it evokes Cerno Bokar's personal engagement with Islam and Islamic mysticism in his own words and describes in rich detail the religious and cultural milieu that shaped this engagement.