Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba

Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba was born in 1853 in Mbacké, in the Baol, the son of the scholar and qadi Momar Anta Saly Mbacké. In 1888 he founded Touba and, with it, the Mouride way, which became one of the largest Sufi brotherhoods in sub-Saharan Africa. The colonial administration deported him to Gabon from 1895 to 1902, then to Mauritania, before placing him under house arrest in Senegal. The author of an abundant body of work in Arabic, he died in 1927 in Diourbel and was buried in Touba.

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• PoetryPaths to Paradiseمسالك الجنانCheikh Ahmadou Bamba · 1886Literature