Madina Gounass — holy city of the Tijaniyya in Casamance

~1936 · Madina Gounass, Vélingara

Thierno Mouhamadou Saïdou Ba founded Madina Gounass in Upper Casamance, not far from the Niokolo-Koba National Park. This holy city became the main centre of the Tijaniyya brotherhood in southern Senegal. Each year, thousands of pilgrims gather there to pray and meditate in the heart of the Senegalese forest.

Sources

• La Vie Sénégalaise — fondateur du Daaka de Madina Gounass
• Persée — M. Ly-Tall, Un islam militant en Afrique de l’Ouest au XIXe siècle : la Tijaniyya de Cheikh Umar (compte rendu, 1993)
• Cairn — « La Tidjaniya, une confrérie musulmane transnationale » (Politique étrangère, 2010)

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