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"A Woman Prays In The Grotto Of The Layene Brotherhood"

Photographs Documenting The Islamic Society In Senegal

"The Sufi Brotherhoods of Senegal"

by Christian Bobst.

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What Are the Four Largest Muslim Brotherhoods in Senegal?

The four largest Brotherhoods in Senegal are the Tijianiyya, the Mourides, the Qaddriyah, and Layene; the first two being the most dominant (Edwin, 2009).  The Qaddriyah makeup approx. 5% of the population and “are named after Cheikh Abd al-Qadir of Persia who died 1166 (Gifford, 2016). The Layene, founded by Libasse Thiaw in 1883 who make up about 5% of the population, are a unique brotherhood as they believe  that Seydina Limamou, their founder, is the Mahdi and that his son was the reincarnation of Jesus (Gemmeke, 2009).

Edwin, S. (2009). Expressing Islamic feminism in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter. Gender, Place and Culture : A Journal of Feminist Geography, 16(6), 723–740. https://doi.org/10.1080/09663690903279161

Gemmeke, A. B. (2009). Marabout Women in Dakar: Creating Authority in Islamic Knowledge. Africa (London. 1928), 79(1), 128–147. https://doi.org/10.3366/E0001972008000648 

Gifford, P. (2016). Religion in Contemporary Senegal. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31(2), 255–267. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2016.1152684

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Happy Friday ! / Mosque and mausoleum of Seydou Nourou Tall, Dakar, Senegal

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Seydou Nourou Tall (1862-1980) was the grandson of the famous El Hadj Umar Tall. Seydou Nourou Tall was born in 1862 in Nioro du Sahel (Mali). This is an important place for the Tijaniyyah, the Sufi tariqa (order, path) within Sunni Islam. The Tijaniyyah originated in North Africa but is now more widespread in West Africa. Ahmad al Tijani was born in Algeria and died in Fes, Morocco.

About the Sufi orders in Senegal; the most important are:

The most important brotherhoods in Senegal are:

– The Xaadir (Qādiriyya), the oldest, founded in Baghdad by the Sufi mystic Abdul Qādir al-Jilānī in the 12th century, spread to Senegal in the 18th Century. – The Tijaniyyah, the largest in membership, founded in Fez, Morocco by the Algerian born Cheikh Sīdī ‘Aḥmad at-Tijānī. – The Mourides, the richest and most active, founded by the Islamic leader Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba (1850–1927) of French West Africa, now Senegal. – The Layene are a smaller Sufi order, centered at Yoff, north of Dakar.

The mosque officially opened in January 2008.

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The Tijâniya is the largest of Senegal’s Sufi orders in terms of number of affiliates but the order is subdivided into several distinct branches, each independent of the other. Within certain branches too there are important internal divisions. This fractured political and administrative structure explains the large number and diversity of Tijânî shrines and settlements in Senegal.

The principal branches of the Tijâniyya in Senegal are:

– The most important of the Tijâni branches, at the national level, is the Sy Zâwiya based in Tivaouane. Established there in 1902 by El-Hadj Malik Sy (1855-1922), this branch was the first to organize zâwiyas in the emerging colonial towns, in the capital cities: Saint Louis and Dakar, as well as in the main rail escales. – At the international scale, the most active Senegalese branch of the Tijâniya is Al-Tarbiyya, established in Kaolack’s Madina Baye neighborhood by El-Hadj Ibrahima Niass (1900-1975) in the 1930s. Its network of zâwiyas extends across West Africa (the Gambia, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria) and to the US. – Also in the 1930’s Tierno Mamadou Seydou Baa (1898-1980), a Tijânî sheikh from the Fuuta Tooro, established his branch of the order in Madina Gounass, in the Upper Casamance. – The Mahdiyya branch of the Tijâniyya was established in Tiénaba in 1882 by Amari Ndack Seck (1830-1899). – The Senegalese branch of the Umarian Tijâniya, established by El-Hadj ‘Umar Tall (1797-1864), is based in Dakar. It owes its presence in the capital to the career of El-Hadj Tierno Sydou Nourou Tall (1862-1980). (source: Eric Ross)

Submitted: 01/02/2019

Posted by Frans.Sellies on 2019-02-03 09:40:30

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