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Book Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba

    Book Details:
  • Author : Qiyamah Abdallah
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-06-21
  • ISBN : 9781490491882
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba written by Qiyamah Abdallah and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 786. . . This is a rare book in English on the life, teachings, and poetry of the great sufi master Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba from Touba Senegal west Africa.

Book Fighting the Greater Jihad

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  • Author : Cheikh Anta Babou
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2007-09-01
  • ISBN : 0821442570
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Fighting the Greater Jihad written by Cheikh Anta Babou and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Ahmadu Bamba Mbakke. Cheikh Anta Babou explores the forging of Murid identity and pedagogy around the person and initiative of Amadu Bamba as well as the continuing reconstruction of this identity by more recent followers. He makes a compelling case for reexamining the history of Muslim institutions in Africa and elsewhere in order to appreciate believers’ motivation and initiatives, especially religious culture and education, beyond the narrow confines of political collaboration and resistance. Fighting the Greater Jihad also reveals how religious power is built at the intersection of genealogy, knowledge, and spiritual force, and how this power in turn affected colonial policy. Fighting the Greater Jihad will dramatically alter the perspective from which anthropologists, historians, and political scientists study Muslim mystical orders.

Book Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cheikh Abdallah Sufi
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-01-07
  • ISBN : 9781541399518
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba written by Cheikh Abdallah Sufi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 786. . . Let there Be Light! This book contains 4 sections. The 1st section is Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba's teaching on Iman Islam Ihsan. The 2nd section is on the 8 principles of a Murid Sadiq(true disciple). The 3rd sections is on the 7 stations of the Soul. The 4th sections contains special prayers, zikr and wird for the Murid Sadiq in the west. Love and Light - Cheikh Sufi

Book Ways unto Heaven

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  • Author : Abdoul Aziz Mbacke
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0578015498
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Ways unto Heaven written by Abdoul Aziz Mbacke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba, the famous African Muslim leader of nonviolence and Sufi. "Ways unto Heaven" is devoted to the rules of Muslim Ethics and of Sufism which enables humankind to purify theirs hearts and theirs souls so as to lift them to the Lord. Through this book Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba demonstrates the universality of Muslim spirituality which leads to fraternity and peace beyond present bias of intolerance and violence against Islam.

Book A Saint in the City

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  • Author : Allen F. Roberts
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book A Saint in the City written by Allen F. Roberts and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Saint in the Cityexamines the elaborate visual culture of the Mourides, a Senegalese Sufi movement based upon the mystical teachings of Sheikh Amadou Bamba (1953-1927). In the boldly visual city of Dakar, images abound despite the fact that Senegal is largely a Muslim country. Vibrant street murals, calligraphy and calligrams, didactic posters, drawings that protect and heal, advertising images, colourful clothing, Web sites, intricate glass paintings, and innovative architecture all attest to the transformative potency that expressive culture has for Mourides. One image is ubiquitous throughout urban Senegal: the portrait of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, based upon a colonial photograph from 1913. Sacred images "work" for Mourides, and as Bamba is a saint (Wali Allah, or "Friend of God" in Arabic), his portrait actively conveys powerful blessings called baraka that help people to address everyday difficulties, challenges, and goals.The Mouride Way is observed by over four million Senegalese and thousands more around the globe including increasing numbers of African Americans and others converting to this most African of Islamic paths. Amadou Bamba's pacifism, dignity, and self-reliance, as well as his emphasis on the sanctity of work, offer a view of Islam quite different from those currently suggested by Western media. Indeed,A Saint in the Cityreminds us that there are many faces of Islam in Africa and throughout the world. It also assists readers to reconsider misconceptions concerning the prohibition of images in Islam in light of the explosion of visual culture derived from a single photograph of Sheikh Amadou Bamba.A Saint in the Citygrows from a decade of interdisciplinary research and focuses upon nine contemporary artists who base their works upon the spiritual teachings of Amadou Bamba, regardless of their particular backgrounds, training, or styles. The book boldly transgresses the boundaries normally enforced between local and global, fine and popular arts, gallery and streets, historical and contemporary circumstances. An emphasis upon Mouride artists' own voices further decenters the narrative.Allen F. Roberts is professor of world arts and cultures and director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center at UCLA. Mary Nooter Roberts is deputy director and chief curator of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Book Journey Through Ten Thousand Veils

Download or read book Journey Through Ten Thousand Veils written by Maryam Kabeer Faye and published by Tughra Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in a Jewish family, Maryam Kabeer was led to live in India and Nepal, and in monasteries in Europe, and then guided to embrace Islam at the hands of an ancient Sufi Master a few minutes away from the tomb of the Prophet Abraham. She then was guided to study intensively with Sufi Masters around the world. Her journey to the holy places and people of the earth, led her finally to Africa and the deep truth that all lives are totally interconnected and united with our own. This book is a significant and revealing social commentary, also dispelling many other myths and stereotypes such as the proposition, often fostered by the media, that women are inevitably oppressed in Islam. On the contrary, it is by entering into the heart of Islam that the author was liberated, elevated, empowered, and guided to realize the true purpose of her existence.

Book The House of Islam

Download or read book The House of Islam written by Ed Husain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ed Husain has become one of the most vital Muslim voices in the world. The House of Islam could very well be his magnum opus.” -Reza Aslan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot “This should be compulsory reading.” -Peter Frankopan, author of the international bestseller The Silk Roads Today, Islam is to many in the West an alien force, with Muslims held in suspicion. Failure to grasp the inner workings of religion and geopolitics has haunted American foreign policy for decades and has been decisive in the new administration's controversial orders. The intricacies and shadings must be understood by the West not only to build a stronger, more harmonious relationship between the two cultures, but also for greater accuracy in predictions as to how current crises, such as the growth of ISIS, will develop and from where the next might emerge. The House of Islam addresses key questions and points of disconnection. What are the roots of the conflict between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims that is engulfing Pakistan and the Middle East? Does the Koran encourage the killing of infidels? The book thoughtfully explores the events and issues that have come from and contributed to the broadening gulf between Islam and the West, from the United States' overthrow of Iran's first democratically elected leader to the emergence of ISIS, from the declaration of a fatwa on Salman Rushdie to the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo. Authoritative and engaging, Ed Husain leads us clearly and carefully through the nuances of Islam and its people, taking us back to basics to contend that the Muslim world need not be a stranger to the West, nor our enemy, but our peaceable allies.

Book Decolonizing Heritage

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  • Author : Ferdinand De Jong
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-03-17
  • ISBN : 1009092413
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Decolonizing Heritage written by Ferdinand De Jong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senegal's cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future.

Book In Pursuit of Paradise

Download or read book In Pursuit of Paradise written by Eva Evers Rosander and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muridism is a Sufi order which originated in Senegal, West Africa, at the end of the 19th century and is now in rapid expansion with the Senegalese emigrants around the world. Among the Murids the belief is strong that the founder Shaykh Amadou Bamba and his mother Mame Diarra Bousso can help them gain a better life on earth and entry into Paradise. The book gives an account of some Murid women the author has met in Senegal and on Tenerife. Their various paths of life are described with a focus on trade, religion and gender relations. In what ways do women's conditions of life differ from those of their own country? What do the women strive for? And how does Muridism influence their daily life in Senegal and in the diaspora? Eva Evers Rosander has been Associate Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, until 2014. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, and has done extensive anthropological fieldwork in Spain, Senegal and Morocco.

Book Ambiguous Adventure

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  • Author : Hamidou Kane
  • Publisher : Heinemann
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN : 9780435901196
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Ambiguous Adventure written by Hamidou Kane and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1972 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sambo Diallo is unable to identify with the soulless material civilization he finds in France, where he is sent to learn the secrets of the white man's power.

Book Muslims Beyond the Arab World

Download or read book Muslims Beyond the Arab World written by Fallou Ngom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal. The book demonstrates how the development of the 'Ajami literary tradition is entwined with the flourishing of the Muridiyya into one of sub-Saharan Africa's most powerful and dynamic Sufi organizations. It offers a close reading of the rich hagiographic and didactic written, recited, and chanted 'Ajami texts of the Muridiyya, works largely unknown to scholars. The texts describe the life and Sufi odyssey of the order's founder, Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba Mbakke (1853-1927), his conflicts with local rulers and Muslim clerics and the French colonial administration, and the traditions and teachings he championed that permanently shaped the identity and behaviors of his followers. Fallou Ngom evaluates prevailing representations of the Muridiyya movement and offers alternative perspectives. He demonstrates how the Mur'ds used their written, recited, and chanted 'Ajami materials as an effective mass communication tool in conveying to the masses Bamba's poignant odyssey, doctrine, the virtues he stood for and cultivated among his followers-self-esteem, self-reliance, strong faith, work ethic, pursuit of excellence, determination, nonviolence, and optimism in the face of adversity-without the knowledge of the French colonial administration and many academics. Muslims beyond the Arab World argues that this is the source of the resilience, appeal, and expansion of Muridiyya, which has fascinated observers since its inception in 1883.

Book Understanding Nursing Research

Download or read book Understanding Nursing Research written by Nancy Burns and published by Elsevier España. This book was released on 2003 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This leading texbook of nursig research, written by two of the most renowned experts in the field, is now published in full-colour, and this, the 4th edition has now been updated throughout to reflect today's evidence-based practice.

Book Reality Shock  why Nurses Leave Nursing

Download or read book Reality Shock why Nurses Leave Nursing written by Marlene Kramer and published by Mosby. This book was released on 1974 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sufi City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Ross
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781580462174
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Sufi City written by Eric Ross and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about contemporary urban design, a metaphysical worldview and a cultural process that transcends the pre-colonial/colonial/post-colonial divides. Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba is a geographical study of the modern Muslim holy city of Touba in Senegal, capital of the Mouride Sufi order. Touba was founded in 1887 by a Sufi shaykh in a moment of mysticillumination. Since the death of the founder in 1927, the Mouride order has designed and built the entire city. Touba is named for Tûbâ, the "Tree of Paradise" of Islamic tradition. This archetypal tree articulates Islamic conceptions of righteous life on earth, divine judgment, and access to the Hereafter; the city of Touba actualizes this spiritual construct. Important aspects of its configuration, such as the vertical and horizontal alignment of its monumental central shrine complex, its radiating avenues and encircling ring roads, and the actual trees that mark its landscape relate directly to the archetypal tree of Sufi theosophy. The relationship between the spiritualarchetype and its earthly actualization as a city is explained by recourse to Sufi methodology. The book employs a semiotic analysis of urban form, cartography, hermeneutics, field investigation and analysis of satellite imagery in order to relate contemporary urban design issues to overarching metaphysical concepts. Sufi City also explores the history of urban networks in Senegal since the emergence of autonomous Muslim towns in the seventeenth century. Finally, the layout of Senegal's modern Sufi cities is related to the monumental palaver trees that marked that country's historic settlements. Eric S. Ross is a cultural and urban geographer who holds a degree inIslamic Studies. Since 1998 he has been Assistant Professor of Geography at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Apart from research on Sufi orders and Muslim towns in Senegal, he has studied cultural tourism and urban planning in Morocco.

Book Evaluation  Diagnosis  and Treatment of Occlusal Problems

Download or read book Evaluation Diagnosis and Treatment of Occlusal Problems written by Peter E. Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultrasound in Liquid and Solid Metals focuses on the effect of intensive ultrasound on metals, including the analysis of the development of cavitation and acoustic flows in melts, mechanism of metals' spraying and crystallization, the formation of dislocation structure in crystals, diffusion, phase transformation, and plastic deformation. Physical fundamentals of intensive ultrasound effects are covered, and detailed discussions are presented on the engineering principles of equipment and material design for the practical use of ultrasound in the refining of melts, crystallization of ingots and molds, pulverization, plating, pressure working of metals, surface strengthening, and other processes.

Book The Path of Shaykh Ibra Fall

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diawregn Fall
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-04-08
  • ISBN : 9781494747275
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book The Path of Shaykh Ibra Fall written by Diawregn Fall and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serigne Bassirou Mbacke, in Minanul Bakhil Khadim for Siratil Cheikhal Khadim, said how Shaykh Ibra Fall did Bayat with Serigne Touba. He wrote, Shaykh Ibra Fall told me: When I first met your father, Khadim Rasoul, this is what I said: I left my parents house only to find a Shaykh that has reached Allah and whoever follows him will reach Allah. I will find in that Shaykh, the light of Truth and that whoever is put inside such a light will be clean no matter how dirty the person may be. That Shaykh will have a short life (compared to that of the Prophets) but he will perform what the Prophets from Adam to Mohammed (PBUT) performed until everybody knows that the works of the Prophets is the truth. He will perform all the work of the Awliya (Saints / Friends of Allah) until everybody knows that their works are also true. If I do not find that Shaykh in the entire world, I will be working for his Mausoleum until we settle the Mouride path. Such a man is Baboul Mouridine, the Mouride Path... Serigne Touba had told Shaykh Ibra Fall: "This Dunya, I will not give you even a piece of hair." Shaykh Ibra Fall told him, "Please help me, don't show the reality of my spiritual station or give me anything in this world, which has the value of a piece of a hair. All I want is to be the best, to be above all in the next life at the Day of Judgment in front of Allah. " The blessings of Shaykh Ibra Fall that are known by the mortals are only from the grains of sand that touch his knees when he submitted himself to Khadim Rasoul.

Book The Initiatory Way to Peace

Download or read book The Initiatory Way to Peace written by Aly N'Daw and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: