Magal of Porokhane - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Magal of Porokhane - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Evers Rosander, Eva

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062626
Doc. NO	:	ALei3023
Main Entry	:	Evers Rosander, Eva
Title & Author	:	Magal of Porokhane - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Evers Rosander, Eva
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(826 words)
Abstract	:	The Magal of Porokhane is an annual religous commemorative celebration ( magal in Wolof) that is dedicated to Mame Diarra Bousso (d. c.1860), the mother of Shaykh Amadou Bamba (d. 1927), the founder of the Senegalese Muridiyya (Murīdiyya) Ṣūfī order. The saint Mame Diarra is said to have been buried in Porokhane, a town in Senegal, near the Gambian border. After the death of Amadou Bamba, shrines in both Porokhane and Touba became popular as sites for Muridiyya pilgrimages. Porokhane became famous for Mame (an honorific title for a deceased
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3023.pdf