| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
"A flood shall come upon my companions" -- Study Sufism in context -- Beginnings: Ibrahim Niasse and the advent of the flood -- Spiritual training: the way to mystical knowledge -- Seeing God: the nascent community -- Corssing borders: expansion in Senegal and beyond -- "The supreme saint of his time": a prophecy fulfilled -- After the flood |
| Summary |
This is a study of a 20th-century Sufi revival in West Africa. Seesemann's work evolves around the emergence and spread of the 'Community of the Divine Flood, ' established in 1929 by Ibrahim Niasse, a leader of the Tijaniyya Sufi order from Senegal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Iniyās, Ibrāhīm, 1902-1975
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| SUBJECT |
Iniyās, Ibrāhīm, 1902-1975 fast |
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Iniyās, Ibrāhīm. idszbz |
| Subject |
Sufism -- Africa, West -- History
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Tijānīyah members -- Biography
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Tijānīyah -- Africa, West -- History
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Islamic learning and scholarship -- Africa, West
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Islam -- Senegal
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Islam
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Islamic learning and scholarship
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Sufism
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Tijānīyah
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Tijānīyah members
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Sufismus.
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Sufism -- historia -- Västafrika.
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West Africa
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Senegal
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Westafrika.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199897421 |
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0199897425 |
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9780199726196 |
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0199726191 |
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