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Annals of Muslim History
The Daʿwah and Tajdīd of Shaykh ʿUthmān ibn Fūdī: The Formative Years
Among the greatest projects of tajdīd in the history of the western lands of the Sudan is the movement raised…
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Annals of Muslim History
Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sanūsī: The Lover of Islam and the Architect of Desert Renewal
Among the most consequential figures of Tajdīd renewal in nineteenth-century North Africa stands Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sanūsī al-Khaṭṭābī al-Ḥasanī…
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Annals of Muslim History
The Tajdīd of Imām Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Mahdī: A Call to the Ummah of Jihād
Beloved Brother! Know that the path of tajdīd is not a path of words alone, nor of seclusion in the…
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Annals of Muslim History
Shaykh Aḥmadu Bamba: The ‘Ālim who stood out
In the latter half of the thirteenth century after the Hijrah, as French colonial power consolidated its hold over Senegal…
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Annals of Muslim History
Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAbdille Ḥasan: The Lion of the Somali Peninsula and the Poet of Jihād
Among the most formidable of the mujāhidūn of East Africa in the modern era stands Sayyid Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdille Ḥasan…
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Annals of Muslim History
Imām Māʾ al-ʿAynayn: The Lion of the Sahara and the Scholar of Resistance
In the closing decades of the thirteenth century after the Hijrah and the opening of the fourteenth, as the French…
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Imām ʿUmar al-Mukhtār: The Lion of the Desert and the Steadfast Teacher of Jihād
In the early decades of the fourteenth century after the Hijrah, as European powers completed their partition of the Muslim…
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Annals of Muslim History
The Mujaddid of Algeria: Imām ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bādīs
In the fourteenth century after the Hijrah, as the French occupation of Algeria entered its second century and intensified its…
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Annals of Muslim History
Imām ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī: The Amīr of the Jihād and the Knight of the Sharīʿah
In the thirteenth century after the Hijrah, when the French armies landed on the shores of Algeria in 1830 and…
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Annals of Muslim History
The Mujaddid al-Ḥājj ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd al-Fūtī: Scholar, Khalīfa, and Warrior of the Tijāniyya
In the thirteenth century after the Hijrah, as European pressure mounted on the western coasts of Africa and internal weakness…
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