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The Mourides of Senegal: The Political and Economic Organization of an Islamic Brotherhood

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Divinity Atlas. "The Mourides of Senegal: The Political and Economic Organization of an Islamic Brotherhood." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-mourides-of-senegal.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Mourides of Senegal: The Political and Economic Organization of an Islamic Brotherhood. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-mourides-of-senegal

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  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {The Mourides of Senegal: The Political and Economic Organization of an Islamic Brotherhood},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-mourides-of-senegal},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Donal Cruise O'Brien's is a classic academic study of the Mouride Sufi order's political and economic organization, covering the founding and administration of the holy city of Touba, the authority of the caliph general, and the groundnut basin economy built on Mouride labour, working from direct field research into the order's own economic and political structure. This record states an honest limit on a specific related claim: documentation of urban daara begging practices sometimes cited alongside this book is a later, post-1971 finding not claimed by this study itself, and this citation is used only for the Touba and order economy material that is this book's own actual subject. Use it for established historical facts about the Mouride order's economic and political organization as documented here.

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Donal B. Cruise O'Brien's classic academic study of the Mouride order's political and economic organization, covering Touba's founding and administration, the caliph general's authority and the groundnut basin economy built on Mouride labour; the urban daara begging documentation cited alongside it elsewhere is a later finding not claimed by this book, whose own subject is the Touba and order economy claim.

Notes

Classic academic study of the Mouride order's political and economic organization, covering Touba's founding and administration, the caliph general's authority, and the groundnut-basin economy built on Mouride labour. The urban-daara begging documentation in the fact's closing sentence is a later (post-1971) finding and is not claimed for this book; used for the Touba/order-economy claim that is this book's own subject.

Citation

Author

Donal B. Cruise O'Brien

Publisher

Oxford, Clarendon Press (Oxford Studies in African Affairs)

Publication Year

1971

URL

https://archive.org/details/mouridesofsenega0000crui

Source Type

academic monograph

Claims Backed By This Source (63 claims)

This source backs 63 claims across the atlas. As facts: 28 well-attested. As cited relationships: 14 holds, 4 connected. Plus 17 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Religious Orders, 21 claims: 8 well-attested, 7 holds, 3 connected, 3 general references.
Articles, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 connected, 2 general references.
Doctrines, 10 claims: 5 holds, 5 general references.
Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
Religious Roles & Titles, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
Historical Figures, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
Religions, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
Sacred Sites, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
Beliefs & Restrictions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Cities, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Countries, 1 claims: 1 general references.