Expansion of the Niassene Tijaniyya Order from Senegal to Other African Countries: A Comparative Study

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24401037
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: National Museum of Ethnology (2016); Nagoya University (2012-2015)
• Principal Investigator: Mori Keiko 国立民族学博物館, 文化資源研究センター, 外来研究員 (30566998)
• Research Collaborator: MORI Hirohito
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: イスラーム神秘主義スーフィズム / ティジャーニー教団の分派ニアセン / イブラヒマ・ニアスの宗教教育タルビヤ / イスラームにおける男女の隔離と平等 / ガーナのクマシ / カメルーンのバムン王国とフンバン市 / モーリタニアのマータ・ムラーナ村 / セネガルのニアセン本拠地カオラック

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Niassene Tijaniyya Sufi Order was founded by a Senegalese Shaykh, Ibrahima Niasse. He thought it necessary for all Muslims to undertake his spiritual training method, tarbiya, for the purpose of knowing God, because the knowledge of God is the foundation of the faith of Islam, and that it makes believers tolerant to all human beings regardless of race, nationality or religion. As concerns the teachings of tolerance, this comparative study conducted in the following 3 countries reveals how the situations of the Niassene communitis are different. Niassene followers in Maata Moulana (Mauritania), have been constructing an ideal cosmopolitan city without racial discrimination. In Kumasi (Ghana), there are ethnical conflicts of religious leadership between Hausa and indigenous peoples. In Foumban (Cameroon), the capital of Bamoun kingdom, the Niassene community and the Salafist community stand in opposition so furiously that they threaten the stability of the authority of Bamoun Sultan.

Free Research Field

文化人類学(宗教)