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Sufi Mystic Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke: The Islamic Gandhi of Senegal

Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke was adept in Sufi Mysticism and used it successfully to resist French imperialism in Senegal. Sufi mystics followed a pious form of Islam and believed that a direct, personal experience of God could be achieved through meditation. … Sufism has come to mean those who are interested in finding a way […]