A spirit of tolerance : the inspiring life of Tierno Bokar
Amadou Hampaté. Bâ, Roger Gaetani (Editor), Louis Brenner (Writer of introduction)
Biography of Tierno Bokar (1875-1939), an early twentieth-century African mystic and Muslim spiritural teacher, written by one of his students
Biographies
xxxiii, 236 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
9781933316475, 1933316470
172569380
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