o:id
	12796
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12796
o:resource_template
	Book
o:resource_class
	bibo:Book
dcterms:title
	Sufi Mystics of the Niger Desert: Sidi Mahmud and the Hermits of Aïr
dcterms:subject
	Aïr Mountains
	Khalwati order
	mysticism
	Sufism
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25244
dcterms:date
	1990
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8541
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117312325 Q117312325
	iwac-reference-0000716
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	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.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
dcterms:provenance
	Oxford
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1704
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198265382.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198265382.001.0001
bibo:numPages
	216

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