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" Dahira - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Babou, Cheikh Anta
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AL
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English
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1061338
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ALei1735
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Babou, Cheikh Anta
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Dahira - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Babou, Cheikh Anta
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(815 words)
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The use of the word dahira in a religious context appears to be unique to the Ṣūfī turuuq (orders, from Ar. ṭuruq , pl. of ṭarīqa , lit., way) of Senegal. The Arabic word dāʾira has meanings involving mathematical concepts (e.g., ring, circuit, circumference) and administrative notions (e.g., district, bureau, agency) (Wehr, 347). In Morocco, for example, a dahira (local spelling) is a local police unit above the commissariat; in Algeria, a daïra (local spelling) is a district or “circle,” the second largest administrative unit, below the wilaya (wilāya , governorate).
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Islam.
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ALei1735.pdf
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