Amadou bamba biography of william

          1The portrait of Amadou Bamba1—the founder and leader of the Mouride Sufi brotherhood2 from to —is possibly the most popular and widely reproduced.

        1. 1The portrait of Amadou Bamba1—the founder and leader of the Mouride Sufi brotherhood2 from to —is possibly the most popular and widely reproduced.
        2. Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba was born in Senegal and he served as a Sufi master in the religion of Islam.
        3. Bamba was drawn to Sufism early in his life.
        4. It was in that thirty-year-old Sheikh Amadou Bamba made a pact of fidelity with the Prophet who appeared to him and ordered him to guide.
        5. Babou, Cheikh Anta Mbacké.

          6. Bamba was drawn to Sufism early in his life....

          Amadou Bamba life and biography

          The Senegalese religious leader Amadou Bamba (1850-1927) was the founder of the Mourides, the strongest and most influential African Islamic brotherhood in black Africa.

          Amadou Bamba was born in M'Backe, Senegal, into a Wolof family of Toucouleur origins, the son of a minor Islamic holy man and teacher.

          A charismatic personality, Bamba aided in the mass conversion of the Wolof peoples from tribal paganism to Islam at the end of the 19th century, becoming the founder and marabout of the Mouride sect of Islam. Many Senegalese looked to the Mouride brotherhood for leadership and organization in the fight against the colonial invaders.

          Fearing a holy war against the Europeans under Bamba's inspired leadership, the French exiled him to Gabon from 1895 until November 1902, and again to Mauritania from June 1903 to 1907.

          After 1911, however, fear of a popular uprising in Senegal declined, and the French began to regard Bamba in a new light.

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