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The Divine Flood - Ibrahim Niasse and the Roots of a Twentieth-Century Sufi Revival (Hardcover)
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The Divine Flood - Ibrahim Niasse and the Roots of a Twentieth-Century Sufi Revival (Hardcover)
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Until recently, academic studies of Sufism have largely ignored the
multiple ways in which Islamic mystical ideas and practices have
developed in the modern period. For many specialists, Sufism was
"on the way out" and not compatible with modernity. The present
study of a twentieth-century Sufi revival in West Africa offers
critical corrections to this misconception. Seesemann's work
revolves around the emergence and spread of the "Community of the
Divine Flood," established in 1929 by Ibrahim Niasse, a leader of
the Tijaniyya Sufi order from Senegal. Based on a wide variety of
written sources and encounters with leaders and ordinary members of
the movement, the book analyzes the teachings and practices of this
community, most notably those concerned with mystical knowledge of
God. It presents a vivid and intimate portrait of the community's
formation in Senegal and its subsequent transformation into a
veritable transnational movement in West Africa and beyond. Drawing
on letters, poetry, hagiography, and testimonies of opponents of
the movement, the book traces Niasse's spectacular ascension as the
widely acclaimed "Supreme Saint of His Era" and shows how the
various stages of his career intersect with the development of his
mystical teachings. Seesemann makes a compelling case for studying
Sufis and their literary production in their social and historical
contexts, throwing light on a little known chapter of the
intellectual and social history of Islam.
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