A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal

A Saint in the City presents the art and culture of Islamic West Africa through a dynamic popular religious movement in Senegal known as the Mouride Way, and in doing so encourages dialogue about Islam's commonalities as well as its multiple forms throughout the world. Inspired by the teachings of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, a Sufi pacifist, poet, and saint who lived from 1853 to 1927, Mourides have galvanized contemporary Senegal and its Diaspora through hard work and peaceful, steadfast devotion. The vibrant visual arts of Mourides provide a unique opportunity to examine the origins, impact, and varying perceptions of Islam and Sufism, Islam's mystical core.

A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal was organized and produced by the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and curated by Dr. Mary Nooter Roberts and Dr. Allen F. Roberts in collaboration with Senegalese community leaders and artists in both Dakar and Los Angeles. It was made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional support was provided by the UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center.

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• african
• art
• islam
• muslim
• sufi
• exhibition
• dancing
• drumming
• spencer
• museum

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[Mardinmen]

yes brother you say right they are not muslims

they are munafiks

[hmdsayfu]

I don't think that people who put those pictures of the Sheikh had bads intentions. I think that they are not muslims and they just wanted to make a coverage on Muridism. But have you ever seen a non muslim who can make difference between Sunnah and Bida or between the genuine Sufism and the false one. And at all for the most those persons Islam is just a culture : they just cannot make the difference between those girls they showed dancing and a Sufi meeting.

[Mardinmen]

brother why they take the picture from sheik here

[Mardinmen]

my grandfather is nakshibandi

[hmdsayfu]

It's true Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al Jîlî is the most known leader of Tariqa but I don't really know the Naqshabandiya are you naqshabandy ?

[hmdsayfu]

Assalamou Alaykoum brother oroge. Be quiet there is no relation between what is shown here and the Sheikh Ahmad Bamba

[Mardinmen]

Wa Alaykum Salam brother Mashaallah hmdSAYFU my grandfather is Nakshibandi

the Qadiriya and Nakshibandiya is one of the biggest tariqa of the World Mashaallah

Sheik Abdul-Kadir Geylani(Gavs ül Azam)

and

Muhammad Baha'uddin Naqshbandi, (qaddasallahu sirruh)

after coming Imam-i Ghazali(ks) and Imam Rabbani(ks)

[hmdsayfu]

إذ كل ورد يوصل المريدا

لحضرة الله ولن يحيدا

سواء انتمى إلى الجيلاني

أو انتمى لأحمد التيجاني

أو لسواهما من الأقطاب

اذ كلهم قطعا على الصواب

قاله الشيخ أحمد بمب محمد بن محمد بن حبيب الله

[hmdsayfu]

Assalamou Alaykoum brother Mardinmen i'am from Mourid Tariqa, and it's true the Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba had adopted the Qadiria wird and after he got the mourid wird but he continued to recommend all wird like Shazilia Qadiriya and Tijaniya

[Mardinmen]

mashallah