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Title: | The Sufi Teaching of Tierno Bokar Salif Tall |
Author: | Brenner, Louis |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 208-226 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subjects: | Mahdis Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
About person: | Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal (ca. 1883-1940) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1594665 |
Abstract: | The spiritual dimensions of Sufism have received relatively little attention from scholars. This paper represents an effort to fill this gap. Two primary themes are developed here: the first centres on efforts to define, conceptualize and understand Sufism both as a set of ideas and as a method of spiritual training. The second theme centres on one specific example of Sufi teaching in West Africa, that represented by Tierno Bokar Salif Tali, a Tijani shaikh, who died in Mali in 1940. Notes. |