The Divine Flood

The Divine Flood
Author: Rüdiger Seesemann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195384326

This is a study of a 20th-century Sufi revival in West Africa. Seesemann's work evolves around the emergence and spread of the 'Community of the Divine Flood,' established in 1929 by Ibrahim Niasse, a leader of the Tijaniyya Sufi order from Senegal.

In the Meadows of Tafsir for the Noble Quran

In the Meadows of Tafsir for the Noble Quran
Author: Shaykh Ibrahim Niass
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2014-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991381302

Shaykh Ibrahim Niass is the only Tijani Shaykh to ever publish a Tafsir of Quran in its entirety. He completed the entire Tafsir of Quran between 10 and 12 times throughout his life, in public. Most of the times he would engage in the Tafsir, it would be in the Wolof language, but 2 or 3 times he did the entire Tafsir in the Arabic language for the benefit of his non-wolof speaking Murids (Students). The very last time he did the entire Tafsir in public, was in the year 1963 and it was recorded on cassette tape. One of his senior students from Mauritania named Shaykh Muhammad Wuld' Abdallah al-Jayjuba was present for all of his Tafsir readings and took the great task of transcribing the final recorded Tafsir into book form. It took him over 30 years to edit and check all of the Hadith and sources that Mawlana Shaykh Ibrahim Niass used in the Tafsir. The total number of Hadith that Shaykh Ibrahim mentioned in the Quran are over 6000. Shaykh Ibrahim Niass is known to have completed (Khatmul-Quran) recitation of the entire Quran twice a week. In one of his famous poems he beseeches Allah to "Make the memorization of Quran his Karama (Miracle)." When Shaykh Ibrahim Niass wanted to publicly give Tafsir Quran for the first time, he requested from his older brother to borrow his copy of Tafsir Jalalayn. That request was refused and Shaykh Ibrahim said...."I only ask for Tafsir Jalalayn as a formality and Adab" In other words, he did not need it. (In those days, the Shuyukh would borrow Tafsir from each-other because it was so rare to have it in a book form) In Reality, Shaykh Ibrahim Niass did not learn Tafsir from anyone besides Allah himself. His brother sent spies to listen to SHaykh Ibrahims Tafsir and report back as to what he was saying since he did not have the Tafsir Jalalayn to help....The spies reported back that what they heard from Shaykh Ibrahim was so amazing that they could not stay away. They said that they heard knowledge that even the Shaykhs father did not have or explain before. They testified that Shaykh Ibrahim was indeed a Master without comparison. This Tafsir is a Jewel that contains the meanings of the Zahir (Outward) and Batin (Inward/Hidden) explanation of the Quran. Our Master and Seal of Muhammadan Sainthood Mawlana Shaykh Ahmed Tijani as-Sharriff has said in his Jawahir al-Ma'ni...."The Zahir and Batin meanings of Quran are Haq (Truth) and they don't contradict each-other." This is the English Translation of this Monumental work.

The Enlightenment of Humanity

The Enlightenment of Humanity
Author: Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780578439655

This is a book by Shaykh al-Islam of Africa, al-Hajj Ibrahim Niasse. It concerns the prevelance of knowledge and thos endowed with knowledge over all. This knowledge must be followed by proper actio, according to the Shaykh.

The Stations of the Religion

The Stations of the Religion
Author: Ibrahim Baye Niass
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991381340

A concise explanation of the Hadith of the Angel Jibril. This explanation was sent as a letter to one of the students of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse, after requesting that the Shaykh explain it to him. A description of the steps of SPiritual Wayfaring (Suluk)

Religion and Political Culture in Kano

Religion and Political Culture in Kano
Author: John N. Paden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2022-08-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520337123

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Friends of God

Friends of God
Author: John Renard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2008-02-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520940954

Prophets, saints, martyrs, sages, and seers—one of the richest repositories of lore about such exemplary religious figures belongs to the world's approximately 1.3 billion Muslims. Illuminating some of the most delightful tales in world religious literature, this engaging book is the first truly global overview of Islamic hagiography. John Renard tells of the characters beyond the Qur'an and Hadith, whose stories of piety and service to God and humanity have captured hearts and minds for nearly fourteen hundred years. Renard's thematic approach to the major characters, narratives, social and cultural contexts, and theoretical concepts of this remarkable treasury of tales, based on material ranging from the eighth to the twentieth centuries and from countries ranging from Morocco to Malaysia, provides insight into the ways in which these stories have functioned in the lives of Muslims from diverse cultural, social, economic, and political backgrounds. The book also serves as a useful and evocative tool for approaching the vast geographical and chronological sweep of Islamic civilization.

On the Path of the Prophet

On the Path of the Prophet
Author: Zachary Valentine Wright
Publisher: Fayda Books, LLC.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015
Genre: Sufism
ISBN: 9780991381388

This book is the first scholarly work done on the leader of the worlds largest Sufi Tariqa.

The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa

The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa
Author: Scott Steven Reese
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004137793

This collected volume challenges much of the conventional wisdom regarding the intellectual history of Islamic Africa. In a series of essaays ranging from early modern Africa to the present contributors explore the dynamism of the Muslim learned classes in regard to both purely intellectual pursuits and social concern.