Amadou bamba biography of abraham

          Cheikh Aḥmadou Bamba Mbacke, or 'Amadou Bamba' was born in AH () into a family of Qa'dirī scholars from the line of Shaykh 'Abdu'l-.!

          A Brief Biography of Shaykh Ahmadu  Bamba, the founder of the Muridiyya of Senegal

          Ahmadu Bamba, the founder of the Muridiyya of Senegal, was born in the early s to a family of Wolof Ulama (Muslim learned men) in the pre-colonial

          kingdom of Bawol in West Central Senegal.

          Bamba was drawn to Sufism early in his life.

        1. Dème), a disciple of Ahmadu Bamba, and finally served as special secretary of Arab affairs for Sëriñ ʿAbdul Ahad Mbàkke (), who served as the third.
        2. Cheikh Aḥmadou Bamba Mbacke, or 'Amadou Bamba' was born in AH () into a family of Qa'dirī scholars from the line of Shaykh 'Abdu'l-.
        3. Cheikh Aḥmadou Bamba Mbacke or 'Amadou Bamba' was born in AH () into a family of Qa'dirī scholars from the line of Shaykh.
        4. This paper presents an accessible introduction to the life and thought of Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba (d.

          5. He grew up in a period of turmoil in the Wolof states marked by the intensification then suppression of the slave trade, civil wars and French colonial encroachment. He left his native land at age 12 to follow his father who was a qadi (Muslim judge) and adviser to Wolof kings in the states of Saalum and Kajoor.

          Bamba was attracted to Sufism or mystical Islam at an early age and he grew increasingly critical of his father’s involvement with local rulers.

          After his father&#;s death death in , he inherited the family school, left Kajoor, moved to Bawol and engaged in a new kind of teaching strongly influenced by Sufi ideas.

          In the tradition of Muslim mystics, he emphasized social and geographical distance fro