Muridiyya

Muridiyya is a living tradition within Sufism. Also written Murid brotherhood, Mourides, Muridiyya of Senegal.

Origin

Founder named in the sources: Cheikh Amadu Bamba Mbacke. No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. The founder is named as Cheikh Amadu Bamba Mbacke in the description of Cheikh Anta Babou, Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913 (Ohio University Press, 2007), which describes itself as 'the founding and development of the order and a biographical study of its founder, Cheikh Amadu Bamba Mbacke'. THE PERIOD 1853-1913 IS THE PERIOD THE BOOK COVERS, AS PRINTED IN ITS OWN SUBTITLE; IT IS NOT A FOUNDING YEAR AND IS NOT TREATED AS ONE. No founding year is asserted. THE MONOGRAPH ITSELF WAS NOT READ: its title, author, publisher, year and description were verified from two independently fetched pages - the Cambridge Core record for Mamadou Diouf's review of it in The Journal of African History 50:3 (November 2009), 444-446, and the author's own university department page - and the book is recorded as the source of record pending an actual reading.