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The Murids constitute a Sufi order with roots in Senegal, emphasizing a marabout as guide and a path built on labour, devotion, and charitable actions. They call themselves taallibé and undergo a njebbel pledge to their Murshid. Touba is a sacred center in their networks merging religion with social and economic activity. Murids have notable economic influence and shape political dynamics through unconditional submission to marabouts

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The Mourides’ strong economic position and political influence (see below), system of unconditional submission to their marabouts, and focus on labour over prayer, made them a natural target of the reformers. The importance of marabouts and saints in Mouride thought was seen as *shirk*. This also extended to locations, with reformers opposing the central role of the holy city of Touba and the Mouride tradition of spending significant amounts of money to transport dead relatives to be buried in...

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Murids’. The influence of the Murids has continued to grow in the state of Senegal and Gambia and other immediate environs of the West African sub-region (Christian, 1999). As a religious practice, members of the Murid Brotherhood consider the following; prayer, ablution, fasting, pilgrimage and alms giving as their core principle that should be imbibed as

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