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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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