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Sanussi
(also Sanusiyah), a Muslim religious and political order. Founded in Mecca in 1837 by Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanussi (born 1787 or 1791; died 1859). The center of the Sa-nussi order moved to Cyrenaica, in what is now Libya, in 1843. Its members, the Sanussis, advocated the restoration of the purity of early Islam and a holy war against the infidels. In the mid-19th century, al-Sanussi assumed leadership of the Libyan struggle against Turkish domination, and from 1911 to 1931 he took part in the struggle against Italian colonialists. His grandson, Muhammad Idris al-Sanussi, ruled Libya from December 1951 to August 1969 as King Idris I. Outside of Libya, the principles of the Sanussi order are maintained in Algeria, Nigeria, Chad, the Sudan, and several other African countries. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | As early as the al-Sanusiyah Order was brought into being, its founder and spiritual leader the Grand Sanussi made up his mind to create a theocratic state on the Egyptian and Libyan borderland (6). 6) So also in Libya, Mussolini's conquest in the 1920s virtually decimated the population, but Italian colonization (1911-42) was briefer, leaving the Sanussi religious order intact with help from the British. Sanussi was convicted in absentia by a French court in March 1999 for masterminding the mid-air bombing of a French UTA jetliner over Niger in 1989 in which 170 people perished. |
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