- The
Mouride brotherhood (Wolof:
yoonu murit, Arabic: الطريقة المريدية aṭ-Ṭarīqat al-Murīdiyyah or
simply المريدية, al-Murīdiyyah) is a
large tariqa (Sufi...
- was a Sufi
saint and
religious leader in
Senegal and the
founder of the
Mouride Brotherhood (the Muridiyya).
Sheikh Amadou produced poems and
tracts on...
-
Sheikh Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke,
founder of the
Mouride Brotherhood movement in West Africa. Well
known in the
Mouride Brotherhood,
Ibrahima Fall
established the...
- Islam.
Contemporary Wolofs are
predominantly ****
Muslims belonging to
Mouride and
Tijaniyyah Islamic brotherhoods. The
Wolof people, like
other West...
-
inspiring N'Dour's
identity as a
modern griot. As a
Mouride disciple, taalibé in Wolof, a
Muslim of the
Mouride brotherhood, one of the
large four Sufi orders...
- administration. The main Sufi
orders are the Tijaniyyah, the
Muridiyyah or
Mourides, and to a
lesser extent, the pan-Islamic
Qadiriyyah and the
smaller Layene...
- beyond, prin****lly
Mourides, from as far away as
Europe and America. Other,
minor pilgrimages occur throughout the year. For
Mourides,
Touba is a sacred...
-
Grand Magal of
Touba is the
annual religious pilgrimage of the
Senegalese Mouride Brotherhood, one of the four
Islamic Sufi
orders of Senegal. On the 18th...
-
Sheikh Bara Mbacké (c. 1925 – 30 June 2010) was the
Grand Marabout of the
Mouride movement in
Senegal from 2007
until his
death in 2010. The
movement is...
- site of a pilgrimage, the
Grand Magal of Touba. It is the home of the
Mouride Brotherhood, a Sufi order, thus
making it
important to that order.[citation...
