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Title: | A West African Sufi master on the global stage: Cheikh Abdoulaye Dièye and the Khidmatul Khadim International Sufi School in France and the United States |
Author: | Babou, Cheikh A. |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | African Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World (ISSN 1872-5457) |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 27-49 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Senegal France United States |
Subjects: | Islamic education Muslim brotherhoods biographies (form) |
About person: | Cheikh Abdoulaye Dièye (1938-2002) |
External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/10.1163/187254611x566099 |
Abstract: | The recent wave of West African Muslim migration to the West started after the Great War and gained momentum in the 1960s. Sub-Saharan Africans have been particularly successful in finding a niche in Europe and North America partly because of the connection between immigrants and centres of Islamic spirituality and knowledge in Africa provided by a dynamic leadership that straddles the three continents. Based on extensive interviews in the United States and in France and on the examination of Murid internal sources and scholarly secondary literature, this article investigates the efforts of the late Sufi sheikh Abdoulaye Dièye, born in 1938 in Saint-Louis (Senegal), to expand the Muridiyya Muslim tariqa in France and North America. Focus is on the foundations of Dièye's appeal, his struggle to earn legitimacy and relevance on the global stage, and the response of diverse constituencies to his calling. The author contends that the attraction of Dièye's teachings to Europeans, Americans, and Africans in the diaspora, is rooted in his dual cultural outlook as a Western educated and traditionally trained Murid. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |