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Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi ( Arabic: محمد بن علي السنوسي; in full Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sanūsī al-Mujāhirī al-Ḥasanī al-Idrīsī) (1787–1859) was an Algerian Muslim theologian and leader who founded the Senussi mystical order in 1837. His militant mystical movement proved very significant and helped Libya to win its ...
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The fortresses and army of religious brotherhood of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi, 1883. Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi (1787–1859), the founder of the order, [1] was born in Algeria near Mostaganem and was named al-Senussi after a venerated Muslim teacher. [1] He was a member of the Awlad Sidi Abdalla tribe and was a Sharif.
Sanusi, Muhammad ibn Ali al- (1859) (d. 1859)Algerian disciple of Ahmad ibn Idris and founder of the Sanusi Sufi tariqah. A reformist and revivalist who, after study in Fez and Mecca, advocated return to the Quran, Sunnah, and the practice of ijtihad. Rejected legal principles of ijma, qiyas, and taqlid. Promoted contemplation of Muhammad and a ...
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Muhammad Al-Mahdi was the son of the founder of the Senussi Order, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi. He was born in the town of Bayda in northern Cyrenaica, present day northeastern Libya, He succeeded his father after his death as leader in 1859. Ottoman interference had forced the Senussi to leave coastal Bayda for the desert village of Jaghbub in 185...
In 1895 following interference by the Ottomans Al-Mahdi moved again, much further south to the Kufra oasis in the Libyan Desert subregion of the Sahara. Nonetheless, the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II twice sent his aide-de-camp Azmzade Sadik El Mueyyed to meet Sheikh Senussi to cultivate positive relations and counter the West European scramble for ...
Under the leadership of Al-Mahdi, the Senussi order arrived at the height of their influence and spread, building their Zaouias where water and pasture were available, and spreading south to the Ouaddaï Region and Lake Chad. The Oasis of Kufra became the center of commerce for the desert regions, with caravans coming from the Sahel and the Maghreb....
Azmzade,Gokkent,Senusi (2021). Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa and Through Time. USA: G M Gokkent.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) See https://www.amazon.com/Jour...Bertarelli, L.V. (1929). Guida d'Italia, Vol. XVII(in Italian). Milano: Consociazione Turistica Italiana.Vikør, Knuth S. (1995). Sufi and scholar on the desert edge: Muḥammad b. ʻAlī al-Sanūsī and his Brotherhood. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.Mohammed El Senussi's great-great-grandfather, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, founded the Senussi order in 1837. A scholar from Mustaghanim, Algeria who traced his ancestry to Fatima, daughter of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi traveled extensively across northern Africa and the Hijaz while preaching a revivalist and mystical Islamic way of life and attracting ...
Born sometime after 830 (Hijri) in Algeria, Imam Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi is one of the most prominent Ash`ari theologians in the Islamic tradition. He has written a number of primers and commentaries in theology that form an entire curriculum for theological studies.
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al-Sanūsī. Sanūsiyyah, a Muslim Sufi (mystic) brotherhood established in 1837 by Sīdī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sanūsī. In modern history, the head of the Sanūsī brotherhood was king of the federal kingdom of Libya from its creation in 1951 until it was superseded by a Socialist republic in 1969. The Sanūsiyyah brotherhood was a ...
