TY  - BOOK
AU  - Babou,Cheikh Anta Mbacké
TI  - Fighting the greater jihad: Amadu Bamba and the founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913 
T2  - New African histories series
SN  - 9780821442579 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BP80.B238 B33 2007eb (Online)
U1  - 297.4/8 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Bāmbā, Aḥmadū,
KW  - Bamba, Ahmadu.
KW  - Bamba, Ahmadu,
KW  - Murīdīyah
KW  - Senegal
KW  - Biography
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - History
KW  - Islamic sects
KW  - Murīdiyya
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - idsbb
KW  - Sufismus
KW  - Geschichte 19. Jh
KW  - Muriden
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Bildung
KW  - swd
KW  - fast
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index; Islam, society, and power in the Wolof states -- The Mbakke: the foundations of family traditions -- The emergence of Amadu Bamba, 1853-95 -- The founding of the Muridiyya -- Murid conflict with the French colonial administration, 1889-1902 -- Slow path toward accommodation I: the time of rapprochement -- Slow path toward accommodation II: making Murid space in colonial Bawol -- Conclusion; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in Arabic, French, and Wolof, Fighting the Greater Jihad offers an astute analysis of the founding and development of the order and a biographical study of its founder, Cheikh Amadu Bamba Mbacke. Cheikh Anta Babou explores the forging of Murid identity and pedagogy around the person and initiative of Amadu Bamba as wel
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