Ṣūfī mystics of the Niger desert : Sīdī Maḥmūd and the hermits of Aïr
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Ṣūfī mystics of the Niger desert : Sīdī Maḥmūd and the hermits of Aïr
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-176) and indexes
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Description
This book is a study of the evidence that exists to this day in the Niger Republic, and in the adjacent regions of Saharan and non-Saharan Africa, about the life of Sidi Mahmud al-Baghdadi, who, it is believed, introduced new doctrines of Oriental Sufism into the Air Massif during the sixteenth century. The teachings of Sidi Mahmud were to reappear recently in the Khalwatiyya Sufi order ( tariqa) in Niger. They are still important for contemporary
Islam in that republic which is a bridge between the Arab world and the Muslim states of the African Sahel. There is also evidence to suggest that initiated members of the Mahmudiyya Sufi order were once to be found throughout the entire Southern Sahara, from Timbuctoo to Borno and Lake Chad. This Sufi order was one of
the earliest to be founded in the area of Air which was a crossroads of African trade and of rival empires and of conflicting tribes and peoples.
Table of Contents
- The visit of Shaykh Ahmad as-Yamani to the city of Agades
- the Daghughiyyun Sharifs and scholars of the family of al-Hajj settle in Central Sahara
- Shaykh Sidi al-Mahmud al-Baghdadi and his arrival in Air in the 16th century
- the followers of Sidi Mahmud and their disciples
- doctrines of the "Mahmudiyya"
- rules for the hermitages in Air
- the martyrdom of Sidi Mahmud
- the later history of the "Mahmudiyya".
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