XIXᵉ siècle – XXIᵉ siècle
Senegal, especially Touba
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Amadou Bamba M’Backé was the Senegalese religious leader who established Mouridism in the late nineteenth century as an offshoot of Qadiriyya. Based at Touba, he taught hard work, clean living, devotion to the marabout, and Islamic observance. His life became surrounded by popular accounts of imprisonment, exile, miraculous escapes, and extraordinary powers, helping shape Mouride devotion.
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Amadou Bamba M’Backé appears as the founder and central religious authority of Mouridism. He established the movement in Senegal in the late nineteenth century as an offshoot of Qadiriyya, during a period when French influence was expanding. His teachings placed disciplined labor and moral conduct alongside devotion to Islam and to the marabout.
Bamba was headquartered at Touba, which became the core of the Mouride movement and a destination for religious pilgrimage. The Great Mosque at Touba stands as the movement’s most prominent institutional landmark. Through this association, Bamba’s religious authority became closely connected to a specific Senegalese place.
The excerpt attributes extraordinary powers to Bamba and recounts stories of trials at the hands of the French. He is said to have survived imprisonment with a hungry lion, a fiery furnace, burial in a deep well, and confinement on an island inhabited by snakes and devils. A popular legend also describes him praying on the ocean floor after jumping overboard during exile to Gabon.
XIXᵉ siècle – XXIᵉ siècle
Senegal, especially Touba
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
Amadou Bamba M’Backé was the Senegalese religious leader who established Mouridism in the late nineteenth century as an offshoot of Qadiriyya. Based at Touba, he taught hard work, clean living, devotion to the marabout, and Islamic observance. His life became surrounded by popular accounts of imprisonment, exile, miraculous escapes, and extraordinary powers, helping shape Mouride devotion.
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Amadou Bamba M’Backé appears as the founder and central religious authority of Mouridism. He established the movement in Senegal in the late nineteenth century as an offshoot of Qadiriyya, during a period when French influence was expanding. His teachings placed disciplined labor and moral conduct alongside devotion to Islam and to the marabout.
Bamba was headquartered at Touba, which became the core of the Mouride movement and a destination for religious pilgrimage. The Great Mosque at Touba stands as the movement’s most prominent institutional landmark. Through this association, Bamba’s religious authority became closely connected to a specific Senegalese place.
The excerpt attributes extraordinary powers to Bamba and recounts stories of trials at the hands of the French. He is said to have survived imprisonment with a hungry lion, a fiery furnace, burial in a deep well, and confinement on an island inhabited by snakes and devils. A popular legend also describes him praying on the ocean floor after jumping overboard during exile to Gabon.
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