TY - BOOK ID - 137693631 TI - Fighting the greater jihad PY - 2007 SN - 0821442570 9780821442579 9780821417652 0821417657 9780821417669 0821417665 PB - Athens Ohio University Press DB - UniCat KW - Murīdīyah KW - Islam and politics KW - Islamic sects KW - History. KW - Bāmbā, Aḥmadū, KW - Muridiyah KW - Bamba, Ahmadu, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137693631 AB - In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in Arabic, French, and Wolof, Fighting the Greater Jihad offers an astute analysis of the founding and development of the order and a biographical study of its founder, Cheikh Amadu Bamba Mbacke. Cheikh Anta Babou explores the forging of Murid identity and pedagogy around the person and initiative of ER -