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Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913

Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913. By Cheikh Anta Babou. New African History Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 294; 23 illustrations. $55.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.

This book concerns the early years of the Muridiyya, a Sufi order (now with more than four million Senegalese followers) founded by Shaikh Amadu Bamba Mbakke (18531927). Drawing on abundant source materials, including Bamba's writings, oral and written accounts by Bamba's followers, and French colonial documents, Cheikh Anta Babou explores the intertwined topics of the genesis of the Muridiyya and Bamba's religious career. Babou notes that he writes ...

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