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    The Mouride brotherhood (Wolof: yoonu murit, Arabic: الطريقة المريدية aṭ-Ṭarīqat al-Murīdiyyah or simply المريدية, al-Murīdiyyah) is a large tariqa (Sufi...
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    Sufi saint and religious leader in Senegal and the founder of the large Mouride Brotherhood (the Muridiyya). Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba produced poems and tracts...
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  • Grand Magal of Touba is the annual religious pilgrimage of the Senegalese Mouride Brotherhood, one of the four Islamic Sufi orders of Senegal. On the 18th...
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    Sheikh Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke, founder of the Mouride Brotherhood movement in West Africa. Well known in the Mouride Brotherhood, Ibrahima Fall established the...
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  • Sheikh Bara Mbacké (c. 1925 – 30 June 2010) was the Grand Marabout of the Mouride movement in Senegal from 2007 until his death in 2010. The movement is...
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    beyond, principally Mourides, from as far away as Europe and America. Other, minor pilgrimages occur throughout the year. For Mourides, Touba is a sacred...
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  • Ida Mouride is an arrondissement of Koungheul in Kaffrine Region in Senegal. "Décret no 2008-1025 du 10 septembre 2008". Journal officiel de la République...
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    between Russia and a Caucasian Naqshbandi movement in the 19th century Mouride brotherhood, a prominent Sufi tariqa in West Africa, founded in 1883 Talibe...
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  • marabouts are organized in elaborate hierarchies; the highest marabout of the Mourides, for example, has been elevated to the status of a Caliph or ruler of the...
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    site of a pilgrimage, the Grand Magal of Touba. It is the home of the Mouride Brotherhood, a Sufi order, thus making it important to that order.[citation...
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