Sanusiyya
A grouping whose distinctness is itself disputed within Sufism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Sanusiyya is recorded within Sufism. Whether it constitutes a distinct tradition is itself disputed in the sources. Also written Sanusi Order, Senussi, Sanusiyah.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi (d. 1859). Founding date given as 1837. A FOUNDING YEAR IS ASSERTED HERE, unusually for this branch, because a single fetched reference work states it flatly and no source read contradicts it. Rachel Simon, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, verbatim: 'Islamic order founded in 1837 by Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi (died 1859)'. Simon names the succession after him as Muhammad al-Mahdi, Ahmad al-Sharif and Idris al-Sanusi. IF A SECOND SOURCE IS LATER FOUND GIVING A DIFFERENT YEAR, THIS FIELD MUST BE CLEARED AND BOTH ANCHORS RECORDED, on the tree's standing rule.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Sanusiyya.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-sanusiyya.
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title = {Sanusiyya},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.