“cheikh a soumare”

In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in Arabic, French, and... More

This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to t... More

This work provides a priceless look at the old speeches of mystical Islam, the gnostic interpretations of the Koranic verses, of hadith, and of traditional sciences such as numerology. (World Religions)Cheikh Mouhammad Hicham Kabbani, cheikh Soufi de la Tariqah Naqchbandi, a compos un trait sur la g... More

In this French edition, the author compares and contrasts the Christian belief in intercession and adoration with Islamic teachings about Allah and the prophets. (World Religions)Vous ne vous tes jamais demand: Quelle est la position des savants d' Ahl al-Sounna wa Jamaa sur rechercher les moyens d'... More

Vous ne vous tes jamais demand: Quest-ce la purification du soi (tazkiyat al-nafs/tassawwouf)? Quelles sont les preuves partir du Coran et des hadiths? Il est bien tablit dans lhistoire que ce sont les leaders spirituels Soufis qui propagrent lIslam dans le sous-continent Indien, dans le centre et l... More

Sambo Diallo finds his situation is ambiguous; while he has become estranged from the simple Muslim faith of his people in Senegal, he is unable to identify with the soulless material civilization he finds in France where he is sent to learn the secrets of white man's power.... More

This expanded edition continues Diop's campaign for the political and economic unification of the nations of black Africa. Concludes with a lengthy interview with Diop.... More