The leaders of the Sanusi movement encourage…
1840 CE to 1851 CE
The leaders of the Sanusi movement encourage the Bedouin to render to the Grand Sanusi a reverence that verges on veneration of him as a saint, an act forbidden in orthodox Islam.
In fact, the tribesmen regard him as a marabout and, indeed, this is the indispensable basis of their attachment to him.
In no other way could an outsider like Muhammad ibn Ali have won their allegiance.
The Sanusi order ultimately permits its leaders to transform their baraka as holy men into a potent political force capable of holding together a national movement.
Groups
Arab people
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Bedouin
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Islam
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Sufism
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Turkish people
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Ottoman Empire
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Tripoli, Beylik of
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Tripolitania (Regency of Tripoli, Tripoli-in-the-West), Ottoman eyalet of
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Tripoli Eyalet
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Tripoli, Pashalik of
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Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
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France, constitutional monarchy of
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Senussi, or Sanussi
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