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1837 CEmoderate

Sanussi Movement in North Africa

الحركة السنوسية

Al-Bayda, Libya

Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi founded the Sanussi order in Libya, combining Sufi spirituality with resistance to European colonialism.

Sources

  • The Sanusi of Cyrenaica
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