Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Day, August 09, 2011
The day has come again, to celebrate Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke day in Raleigh. We will start the event with an exposition on Life and Legacy of the Cheikh at the Raleigh Convention Center and hold a conference in the evening, click on the read article for more details.
A slave and scholar, Omar Ibn Said led an exceptional life
Omar Ibn Said spent much of his life as a slave on a Bladen County plantation, but some claimed he was reared as a Muslim prince in Africa.
The deeply religious man lived a life of celebrity, the subject of national newspaper and magazine stories despite his lowly status in the antebellum South.
Said (who last name also is spelled Sayyid, Saeed and Sa'id) is believed to have come to the United States in 1807, shortly before the foreign slave trade ceased.
SHAYKH ABDU QADR MBACKE FOURTH CALIPH OF MURIDIYYA (1914-1989)
At the evocation of Shaykh Abdul Qadr Mbacke, the forth caliph of Murids from 1989 to 1990 a shared sense stands: bitterness. The Murid community cannot depart from the feeling, conviction that it has been deprived too soon of a foster father so generous in favours, and benefits of all kinds.
The City of Raleigh, NC has proclaimed August 9 as Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba Day.
US Embassy on the Behalf of Secretary of State Hillarry Clinton presented its condoleances to the new Caliph General
Ms. Marcia Bernicat, U.S. Ambassador to Senegal Touba was Thursday, July 29, 2010 to offer condolences to the Caliph General Sheikh Sidi Mukhtar Mourides MBACKE. Ms. Ambassador and his delegation were welcomed at the entrance to the city on behalf of Caliph Serigne Cheikh Thioro by MBACKE and Serigne Bassirou Thioro MBACKE, then headed to the residence of the Caliph in the neighborhood "Gouye Mbinda"
Visit of Serigne Mame Mor Mbacke 2010
Serigne Mame Mor MBacke will be in Raleigh from August 8 until August 10, 2010. Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba day will be celebrated on Monday August 9.
US Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba Days
Video - Serigne Mame Mor Mbacke at the UN
An American View Point About Muridiyya
It has been 15 years since I was first introduced to Muridism as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. At that time I was based in a small village south of Ziguinchor, so I had little opportunity to meet any Murids, other than the Baaye Falls who begged on the streets of Dakar. I found them to be very intimidating with their large clubs and imposing stature. It was the stories of their drunkenness and self-flagellation that circulated among the young American volunteers, not the inspirational words of Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba or his courageous resistance to French colonialism.HISTORY OF THE CELEBRATION OF KAZU RAJAB
There are coincidences so fraught with significances and so rich in benefits of all kinds for humanity that we should see as signs of mercy from God. It is thus the coincidence of "Al Isra wal mihraj" (The night Journey and ascension of prophet Muhammad PBUH) and the birth date of Serigne Mouhamadou Falilou MBACKE (second Caliph of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba from 1945 to 1968). More Articles...
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