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Name: Amadou Bamba
Birth Date: 1850
Death Date: 1927
Place of Birth: M'Backe, Senegal
Nationality: Senegalese
Gender: Male
Occupations: religious leader

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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...


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Ahmadou Bamba, Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké (1853-1927) (Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke in Wolof, Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb Allāh in Arabic, also known as Khadīmu 'l-Rasūl or "The Servant of the Prophet" in Arabic, and as Sëriñ Tuubaa or...


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Albuquerque Journal
divine visions A defining visage adorns the art of Senegal: that of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, a holy man of Sufi Islam
06/29/2007: 938 words, approx. 3 pages
If you listen closely to the great pop stars of Senegal -- Youssou N'Dour is perhaps its most famous export -- you'll notice more than passion beneath the crystalline tenors. They sing of holy men, the Sufi saints of Islam. Among their names, one...
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Anthropologie et Societés
Aura d'Amadou Bamba: photographie et fabulation dans le Senegal urbain.
01/01/1998: 11,012 words, approx. 37 pages
C'est dans la chaleur etouffante d'une journee ensoleillee de 1913, ou dans ces annees-la, que fut prise la seule photographie connue du Cheikh Amadou Bamba (1). Le photographe installa son sujet devant le mur de planches d'une mosquee de la ville de Diourbel,...
 
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