id
	12796
Url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/12796
Modèle de ressource
	Book
Classe de ressource
	bibo:Book
Titre
	Sufi Mystics of the Niger Desert: Sidi Mahmud and the Hermits of Aïr
Sujet
	Aïr Mountains
	Khalwati order
	mysticism
	Sufism
Editeur
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/25244
Date
	1990
Type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8541
Identifiant
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117312325 Q117312325
	iwac-reference-0000716
Langue
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8322
Résumé
	This book is a study of the evidence that exists to this day in the Niger Republic, and in the adjacent regions of Saharan and non-Saharan Africa, about the life of Sīdī Mahmūd al-Baghdādī, who, it is believed, introduced new doctrines of Oriental Sufism into the Aïr Massif during the sixteenth century. The teachings of Sīdī Mahmūd were to reappear recently in the Khalwatiyya Sūfī order (tariqa) in Niger. They are still important for contemporary Islam in that republic, which is a bridge between the Arab world and the Muslim states of the African Sahel. There is also evidence to suggest that initiated members of the Mahmūdiyya Sūfī order were once to be found throughout the entire Southern Sahara, from Timbuktu to Borneo and Lake Chad. This Sūfī order was one of the earliest to be founded in the area of Aïr which was a crossroads of African trade and of rival empires, and of conflicting tribes and peoples.
Couverture spatiale
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/540
Provenance
	Oxford
Liste des auteurs
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1704
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198265382.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198265382.001.0001
Nombre de pages
	216

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