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Sufi Islam in Senegal, report from Dakar
The Massalikul Jinaan Mosque now exceeds in size the Grand Mosque of Dakar.
Flanked by 5 minarets, the highest of which rises to 80 meters, it can accommodate 30,000 people.
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Direction Dakar, the capital of Senegal, to meet Sufi Islam and some of the brotherhoods that characterize it in this secular country of West Africa.
A mystical and ascetic Islam introduced into the country around the 12th century.
Of the 17 million inhabitants, about 95% are Muslims, the vast majority are members of one of the 4 main Sufi religious brotherhoods, themselves led by caliphs who descend from the founders: the Mourides, the Tidianes, the Khadres , or the Layènes, brotherhoods that play an essential economic, political and social role in Senegal.
Report and encounters in Dakar, in this episode of World Religions.
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Speakers:
Djim Dramé,
Islamologist, Head of the Islamology Laboratory of IFAN, the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa, at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar
El Hadj Malick Sy Camara,
teacher in the Sociology Department of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar
Dr. Kharim,
first deputy imam of the Massalikoul Jinan mosque in Dakar.
Report from Dakar residents.
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