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The Mourides, the richest [citation needed] and most active, founded by the Islamic leader Cheikh Amadou Bamba (1850–1927) of French West Africa, now Senegal. The order is centered in the city of Touba. The Layene are a smaller Sufi order, centered at Yoff north of Dakar.
Islam has had a presence in Senegal since the 11th century. Sufi brotherhoods expanded with French colonization, as people turned to religious authority rather than the colonial 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 order.
The Mouride brotherhood (Wolof: yoonu murit, Arabic: الطريقة المريدية aṭ-Ṭarīqat al-Murīdiyyah or simply المريدية, al-Murīdiyyah) is a large tariqa (Sufi order) most prominent in Senegal and The Gambia with headquarters in the city of Touba, which is a holy city for the order.
The Baye Fall, a subgroup of Senegal's large Mouride brotherhood, are unlike any other Muslim group. They make up a tiny fraction of the 17 million population in Senegal, a mainly Muslim country ...
19 Other Sufi groups. 20 Unorthodox Sufi groups. 21 See also. 22 References. 23 Further reading. 24 External links. Toggle the table of contents. List of Sufi orders ...
The Qadiriyya brotherhood is the oldest in Senegal, founded by the Sufi mystic Abd al Qadir al-Jilani in the 12th century. Qadiriyya constitute around 6% of the Senegalese population. [citation needed] Shia Islam is the dominant religion among the Lebanese community of Senegal. Since the 1970s, the number of native Senegalese Shi'i Muslims has ...
Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke (Arabic: سيج أحمدو بامبا مباك, 1853–1927) [1] also known to followers as the Servant of the Messenger (Arabic: خادِم الرسول, romanized: Khādim al-Rasūl) and Serigne Touba or "Sheikh of Touba", was a Sufi saint and religious leader in Senegal and the founder of the large Mouride Brotherhood (the Muridiyya).
Pages in category "Senegalese Sufi religious leaders" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.