the main organizing forms of Islam in precolonial West Africa, and with the spread of Sufism into the area, the marabout's role combined with local practices...

popular religious practices" (Maraboutism, the cult of saints), "deviations, and superstitions"; it aims to purify Islam by returning to the Quran and...

to create a Tijani Islamic empire in Senegal, Tall is described as the "most eminent of the Muslim clerical warriors". The marabouts, leaders and sources...

"authority on Islam" or "proof of Islam". The title "Hujjat al-Islam" is given to scholars with a high level of Islamic expertise and Islamic theology. Essentially...

Islamic ethics that Muslims view as being anything that goes against the commands of God or breaching the laws and norms laid down by religion. Islam...

doctrinally strict branches of Islam in the Middle East. Most orders in West Africa emphasize the role of a spiritual guide, marabout or possessing supernatural...

Sufism and marabouts as un-Islamic, but the poor see that marabouts often speak out on behalf of the downtrodden. Hamallism began as an Islamic reform movement...

by God to aid the Umma and revive Islam at the beginning of every century. Marabout is a spiritual teacher of Islam as it is taught in the West Africa...

and laws of Islam or to societies in which Islam is practiced. In a modern geopolitical sense, these terms refer to countries in which Islam is widespread...

Shaykh al-Islām (English: Sheikh/Chief of Islamic/Muslim Community; Arabic: شيخ الإسلام, romanized: Šayḫ al-Islām; Persian: شِیخُ‌الاسلام, Sheykh-ol-Eslām;...

Islamism is a range of religious and political ideological movements that believe that Islam should influence political systems. Its proponents believe...

darul uloom, or scholars who have studied under other Islamic scholars. Glossary of Islam Marabout, West African religious teachers Mawlawi Mullah Marja...

In Islam, the ulama (/ˈuːləˌmɑː/; Arabic: علماء, romanized: ʿulamāʾ, lit. 'the learned ones'; singular Arabic: عالِم, romanized: ʿālim; feminine singular...

person and God, so there is no intercession. There is no original sin in Islam. It is the act of leaving what God has prohibited and returning to what...

marked Islam in West Africa, and had been linked to the idea of an “Islam noir” by French colonial administrators, they opposed the marabouts, their cooperation...

against the traditional marabouts and the saint cults, they believed in voodoo dolls, and urged the importance of Arabic and Islamic education; his disciples...

representation. A set of Islamic representatives and tax collectors were established as attaches, and known as the Marabouts from the Arabic word "mourabitoun"...

the Hanbali school in North and Central Arabia. The first centuries of Islam also witnessed a number of short-lived Sunni madhhabs. The Zahiri school...

Kingdom of Yemen (1918–1970). Sunni Islam does not conceive of the role of imams in the same sense as Shia Islam: an important distinction often overlooked...

Principles of Islamic jurisprudence (Arabic: أصول الفقه, romanized: ʾUṣūl al-Fiqh) are traditional methodological principles used in Islamic jurisprudence...

aridity of official Islam had little appeal outside the mosques and schools of the cities. In the countryside, wandering marabouts, or holy people, drew...

actions, behaviors, or items that are acceptable under the teachings of Islam. Halal applies not only to food but also to various aspects of life, including...

killing him when he refused to convert to Islam, and also killing one of his key allies, a Fula marabout. The king of nearby Fuladu, Alfa Molo, set out...

right conduct, Godly rule, etc.]'), interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community (ummah). The widespread...

 'physical effort' or 'mental effort') is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's...

and age. Classical usage of the term differs between Sunni Islam and Shia Islam. Sunni Islamic usage designates the unjustified conformity of one person...

Islam is the dominant religion in Libya, with 97% of Libyans following Sunni Islam. Article 5 of the Libyan Constitution declared that Islam was the official...

considered to be distasteful or abominable. Haya plays an important role in Islam, as it is one of the most important parts of Iman. The antonym of Haya in...

and Abduh as rejection of cultural themes (adat, urf), rejection of maraboutism (belief in the powers of intervention of those blessed with divine charisma...

especially brought on by Islamic scholars, Islam became the major religion in the country in the 19th century. The Soninke-Marabout wars (1850), a series...