CHEIKH ANTA BABOU is a historian of Islam and the modern West African Muslim diaspora at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Educated at University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar and Michigan State University, Dr. Babou is the author of Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853–1913 (Ohio University Press, 2007), a French translation of the book was released by Karthala under the title Le Jihad de l’Ame in (Karthala, 2011). His latest book, Amadou Bamba, le fondateur de la Mouridiyya (Histoire Générale du Sénégal, 2021), is an intellectual biography of the founder of the Muridiyya order.
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