Sufis

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a flourishing time for Islamic mysticism, several Islamic mystics of Iran and Central Asia found their way to the ideas and thoughts of one of the most important and influential schools of Islamic mysticism; that of the Master Maximus Sha…

This study examines the origins and development of the community of Hamawi Sufis that formed around Yacouba Sylla in French West Africa beginning in 1929. Based on research in the French, Senegalese, Malian, Ivoirien and Mauritanian archives, as well as on an analysis of the ora…