The Mouride brotherhood (Wolof: yoonu murit, Arabic: الطريقة المريدية aṭ-Ṭarīqat al-Murīdiyyah or simply المريدية, al-Murīdiyyah) is a large tariqa (Sufi...

Sufi saint and religious leader in Senegal and the founder of the large Mouride Brotherhood (the Muridiyya). Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba produced poems and tracts...

Sheikh Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke, founder of the Mouride Brotherhood movement in West Africa. Well known in the Mouride Brotherhood, Ibrahima Fall established the...

between Russia and a Caucasian Naqshbandi movement in the 19th century Mouride brotherhood, a prominent Sufi tariqa in West Africa, founded in 1883 Talibe...

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...

beyond, principally Mourides, from as far away as Europe and America. Other, minor pilgrimages occur throughout the year. For Mourides, Touba is a sacred...

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...

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...

inspiring N'Dour's identity as a modern griot. As a Mouride disciple, taalibé in Wolof, a Muslim of the Mouride brotherhood, one of the large four Sufi orders...

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...