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Title

A spirit of tolerance : the inspiring life of Tierno Bokar / by Amadou Hampaté Bâ ; edited by Roger Gaetani ; introduction by Louis Brenner.

Author

Bâ, Amadou Hampaté

Publication

Bloomington, Ind. : World Wisdom, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gaetani, Roger, 1954-

Description

xxxiii, 236 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Biography of Tierno Bokar (1875-1939), an early twentieth-century African mystic and Muslim spiritural teacher, written by one of his students.

Series Statement

The library of perenniel philosophy. Spiritual masters--East & West series

Uniform Title

Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar. English

Alternative Title

Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar.

Subject

• Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal
• Tijānīyah members > Mali > Biography
• Sufism > Mali

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-229) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

His life -- Roots -- The teacher -- The Bandiagara Zāwiya -- The origin of the practice of "eleven beads" and "twelve beads" -- The destiny of Sharīf Hamallah -- The meeting of Tierno Bokar with Sharīf Hamallah -- The beginning of the persecutions -- The ordeal -- His words -- The well -- The three lights -- The three degrees of faith -- The miserly merchant -- Thinking beings -- Does God love infidels? -- The rainbow -- Children of the same father -- Relations with other religions -- Being on guard against one's own "dust" -- Religion is one in its essence -- God, who confounds human intelligence -- The turbaned hypocrite -- Religious struggles -- Battle horses -- The bird fallen from its nest -- The little dog and paradise -- The two kinds of beauty -- White birds and black birds -- The Dhikr -- The three types of clothing -- The palace and the thatched cottage -- The responsibility of leaders (chiefs) -- The throne and the butcher boy -- Tradition and change -- His teachings -- First lesson: the Primordial Pact -- Second lesson: Mā 'd-Dīn -- Third lesson: a synthesis of the esoteric teachings : Sharī'a Bātiniyya (inner law): Sufism, the Tijani way.

ISBN

9781933316475 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007044694

OCLC

• 172569380
• SCSB-11169610

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library