A Community College professor's experiences serving as a Fulbright Scholar at the Stolypin Volga Region Institute of Administration in Saratov Russia in 2014 and as a Fulbright/Hays grantee in Senegal, West Africa in 2016; Includes a 2nd and 3rd trip in 2015 and 2017 to Saratov, and, in 2015, as part of a delegation to Morocco's Ministry of Education. Continues with an additional trip to Senegal(CAORC) in 2019 and a study abroad summer program at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus in 2019.
Friday, January 18, 2019
Our guide at the Holy City of Touba Mosque, Amadou. This Mosque is built upon land sold to representative of Cheikh Bamba. It was a farm 100 years ago. Bamba began the construction but it was completed after his death.
Cheikh Bamba, the spiritual leader of the Sufi Mouride movement was exiled twice by the French Colonial authorities---for several years in Gabon and also Mauritania. His underlying philosophy emphasized a peaceful Islam.
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