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The divine flood : Ibrahim Niasse and the roots of a twentieth-century Sufi revival /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seesemann, Rüdiger
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Iniyās, Ibrāhīm, > 1902-1975.
Iniyās, Ibrāhīm, > 1902-1975
Iniyās, Ibrāhīm.
Sufism > Africa, West > History.
Tijānīyah members > Biography.
Tijānīyah > Africa, West > History.
Islamic learning and scholarship > Africa, West.
Islam > Senegal.
Soufisme > Afrique occidentale > Histoire.
Membres de la Tidjāniyya > Biographies.
Tidjāniyya > Afrique occidentale > Histoire.
Musulmans > Savoir et érudition > Afrique occidentale.
Islam > Sénégal.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Islam
Islamic learning and scholarship
Sufism
Tijānīyah
Tijānīyah members
West Africa
Senegal
Sufismus.
Westafrika.
Sufism > historia > Västafrika.
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages : illustrations, map
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199897421
0199897425
9780199726196
0199726191