10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UMAR TAL»
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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions
'UMAR TAL recorded from ORAL TRADITION between the 8th and 1 1th century
and are preserved in the 12th-century manuscripts The Book of the Dun Cow (c.
1 100) and The Book of Lein- ster (c. 11601 and also in later compilations, such ...
2
Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa
250. 15 Al-Hajj 'Umar Tal, Rimah, I, p. 181. 16 Al-Hajj 'Umar Tal, Tadhkirat al-
Ghofilin, fols. 20b-21a. 17 Ibn al-Hibat, Manaqib al-Shaykh 'Umar, fols. 1-2. 18 Al-
Hajj 'Umar Tal, Rimah, I, p. 181. This date probably corresponds with 14 July
1828: ...
3
Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal: The Murid Order
The Jegunko phase of Umar Tal's career saw him at the height of his scholarly
abilities with the completion of a major text that is considered second only to the
work of al-Tijani within the worldwide Tijani community. Likewise, the disciples
that ...
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Dictionary of African Biography
... ongoing political ferment in the interior ofSenegal. The Islamic cleric and
military leader al-Hajj Umar Tal had called on Peul-speaking Muslims to revolt
against their own leaders and to resist French influence. In Wolof- speaking
kingdoms a ...
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Henry Louis Gates,
2012
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Africa and the Africans in the Nineteenth Century
10. Caillié, Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo, 311 [our translation]. 11.
Cited by Abitbol, Tombouctou et les Arma, 157 [our translation]. 12. Diata, The
Bamana Empire. 13. Robinson, The Holy War of Umar Tal. 14. Anne Raffenel ...
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
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Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and ...
One of Umar Tal's jelis has been identified as Mustafa Jali Musa Diabate, who
may have been the composer of Taara. Performances of Taara often move
directly into Maki, a related piece apparently dedicated to Umar Tal's second son
Maki, ...
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Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria
The establishment of the Tijaniyya in present-day Northern Nigeria goes back to
aI-ljlajj 'Umar Tal al-Ffiti who on his way back from the hajj stayed in Bornu and in
Sokoto from 1831132 to 1838. He was initiated into the Tijaniyya in the late ...
8
The Métis of Senegal: Urban Life and Politics in French West ...
Governor Bouét-Willaumez expressed concern about the growth of“fanatical”
Islam in the Senegal River valley because Futanke reformer Al-Hajj Umar Tal
established a Tijani communityin the middle Senegal. Having established the
Sufi ...
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Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003)
Since the late eighteenth century, this area also experienced the spirit of the jihad
movements, such as the movement of al-hajj 'Umar Tal. In contrast with the jihad
movement of 'Uthman dan-Fodio, 'Umar' Tal's movement had recruited its ...
10
God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam
'Umar Tal's experience of the great Muslim intellectual centres of the East was
superior to that of the Shehu, but his holy war was far more conservative, aiming
at the expansion of the frontiers of Islamic states rather than at a new and radical
...