He led a pacifist struggle against the french colonial empire while not waging outright war on the french like several prominent tijani marabouts had done. With both parents fully immersed in the realm of tassawuf, the islamic science of spiritual expansion, shaykh ahmadou bamba was reared in a tradition of pious devotion. Shaykh amadou bamba was able to singlehandedly set up a selfsufficient city to emulate the city of madinah at the time of the prophet he turned his colonizers into friends. Cheikh ahmadou bamba wrote several books and treatises dealing with theology, islamic jurisprudence, sufism, religious sociology and arabic literature. Cheikh ahmadou bamba, piu conosciuto con i nomi di serigne touba o khadimou rassoul, e nato verso il 1853 o 1854 a mbacke baol senegal, villaggio fondato dal suo bisnonno muhammad al khayr. This paper presents an accessible introduction to the life and thought of shaykh ahmadu bamba d. Other cheikh ahmadou bamba days are proclaimed in the u. The italian authorities followed suit by proclaiming cheikh ahmadou bamba day on june 8 which is annually celebrated in rome. Cheikh ahmadou bamba day, august 09, 2011 the day has come again, to celebrate cheikh ahmadou bamba mbacke day in raleigh.
The path of the murid sadiq cheikh abdallah sufi on. Cheikh ahmadou bamba, by being constantly in search for god and spirituality, through the example of the cheikh and serving the muslim community and ultimately all humanity. He was subjected to confinement and all sorts of injustices including exile in gabon and mauritania for a total. Click download or read online button to get cheikh ahmadou bamba book now. In one of his numerous writings, matlabul fawzeyni the quest for happiness in both worlds, sheikh ahmadou bamba describes the purpose of the city which he founded in 1887. This contribution focuses on the ajami tradition of the muridiyya sufi order founded by cheikh ahmadou bamba mbacke 18531927. A religious prayer leader, poet and monk, ahmadou bamba founded the mouride brotherhood in 1883 and the city of touba.
We, the mourides residing in the americas, disciples of cheikh ahmadou bamba mbacke, khadimur rasul, ra, may allah be pleased with him. From his early childhood he displayed amazing qualities of wisdom, sainthood and knowledge that earned him respect and consideration from his community. Ahmadou bamba mbacke was a religious leader who produced poems and tracts on meditation, rituals, work, and quranic study. Sheikh ahmadou bamba the founder of the muridiyya the founder of muridiyya is sheikh ahmadou bamba, an eminent sufi master from senegal. And the light replied, i am her, the light, being the teacher of all disciples of the heart.
They asked her, who are you, mysterious veiled one. Cheikh ahmadou bamba mbacke french text retrieved and translated 30oct2011. Inspired by the quran and sunnah to promote unity and cooperation, to shoulder the responsibility of preserving our religious and cultural identity according to the teachings of khadimur rasul, ra. In the car there was a driver who only listened to quran verses on the stereo.
We will start the event with an exposition on life and legacy of the cheikh at the raleigh convention center and hold a conference in the. Shaykh ahmadou bamba s life and teachings are exemplary for the modern and the islamic world in particular in need of guidance to find a way out of a spiraling destruction due to violence and rigid literal religious interpretations of sacred texts by those who have lost access to the keys of the texts inner wisdom. In his book titled khidma, the author aziz abdou mbacke majalis writes. Cheikh ahmadou bamba was a senegalese muslim saint who is renowned for his resistance to the imperialism and oppression of the french colonizers. Cheikh ahmadou bamba was a mystic and religious leader who produced a prodigious quantity of poems and tracts on meditation, rituals, work, and quranic study. Bamba was the son of a marabout from the xaadir brotherhood. Sheikh amadu bambas murid resistance to french colonial.
The poem is written by serigne saliou ka, son of serigne moussa ka, to honour his fathers work in disseminating cheikh ahmadou bamba s teachings and murid ethos to. Shaykh ahmadou bamba s nonviolent jihad farah michelle kimball. Sheikh ahmadou bamba lived from 1853 to 1927 while senegal was under french colonial rule. Mouride beliefs amadou bamba is considered a renewer mujaddid in. This material is a tribute to serigne moussa ka, a wellknown poet and follower of cheikh ahmadou bamba. This brotherhood was founded by cheikh ahmadou bamba also known as ahmed ben mohammed ben abib allah or khadimou rassoul. He was bom into a renowned muslim clerical family, the mbacke, wellknown for their deeprooted attachment to learning and teaching religious knowledge.
Mouridism or almouridiyain arabic is an islamic sufi doctrine established in senegal west africa in 18821883 by cheikh ahmadou bamba mbacke. Hey everybody, so i was just noticing that the page is entitled ahmadou bamba with an h, but amadou bamba without an h is used most of the time in the article. Muhammad ibn muhammad ibn habibullaah his full name carried the name of his fathers master, muhammad sall, who came from the village of bamba. The life of sheikh ahmadou bamba is a testimony of his commitment to the revival of authentic islam, the religion of peace and his only ideal was to serve humanity by giving teachings in accordance with the prophetic. African language materials including interviews in video and pdf versions.
Additionally, bamba s father, momar anta sali, was a jurist and educator who was initiated into the qadiri sufi order. Bamba sought to cast off the shackles of french colonial oppression by calling the murids to a. Peace on the human plane is a consequence of making peace with god, with the. Marabout relatives of amadou bamba and leaderfigures within mouridism. Cheikh ahmadou bamba was born ca 1854 in a small village called mbacke cajoor in the internal regions of senegal. Net dakar, 02 february 2010 the unseen photograph of sheikh ahmadou bamba, founder of mouridism and touba, published by the daily, shows one of his many statements contained in his poem entitled jawartou or the sacrament for paradise, illayakhadallahou malam yakoun, walla yakounou abadan lil kini mum or god has granted me a favor he. The weapons he used for resistance were his knowledge and piety for which the french authority persecuted him. Jihad, peace and nonviolence in mouridism 18831927 by. Sheikh ahmadou bamba is an african muslim sufi master, bom in 1853 in senegal west africa, during french colonization, just after the official abolition of slavery in the colonies. Verily, those who have attained to faith and do good works, and are constant in prayer, and dispense charity they shall have their reward with their sustainer, and no fear need they have, and neither shall they grieve. It is worth noting that the issues of jihad, peace and nonviolence are a transversal theme that runs through all his writings, regardless of the subject matter.
Sufis on parade murid islamic community in america, inc. Well known in the mouride brotherhood, ibrahima fall established the influential baye fall movement neil savishinsky 1994 contends that sheikh ibrahima fall is one of the first and most illustrious of ahmadu bamba s disciples. Copy of letter from shaykh ahmad bamba to his younger brother mame thierno recommending him to create a village named dar al mouhty darou mousty the abode of the allgiving one. Cheikh ahmadou bamba download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi.
Amadou bamba was born in mbacke, senegal, into a wolof family of toucouleur origins, the son of a minor islamic holy man and teacher. A hmadu bamba, the founder of the muridiyya of senegal, was born in the early 1850s to a family of wolof ulama muslim learned men in the precolonial. Brotherhood have organized the annual cheikh amadou bamba day parade in new. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. This ebook was digitized from an original copy by the west african. There is a descending hierarchy of lowerrank marabouts, each with a regional following.
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