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Bilad al-Sudan (the Sudan belt)

بلاد السودان

The Sahel-Sudan belt south of the Sahara, Senegal to the Nile basin; the geographers’ «land of the blacks».

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Region
West Africa & Sahel

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Home of
Abba Mahamat Moussa· Abdou Diouf· Cheikh Abdou Khadre Mbacke· Abdoul Wahab Dièye· Abdoulaye Wade· Abdullahi dan Fodio· Abu Abdallah al-Baridi· Ahmad Fanakati· Ahmad Tajuddin· Akon· al-Hajj Umar Tal· Ali Farka Touré· Alpha Oumar Konaré· Amadou Bamba· Amadou dan Ténimoun· Amadou Hampâté Bâ· Asma' Harun· Assimi Goïta· Ayuba Suleiman Diallo

People and things also explored

Serigne Saliou Mbacké· Abdou Diouf· Abdoulaye Wade· King Faisal Prize· Ahmadu Tall· Ba Lobbo· Léopold Sédar Senghor· Macky Sall

Sources

  • Wikidata
  • GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Bilad al-Sudan (the Sudan belt)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/bilad-al-sudan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Serigne Saliou Mbacké

Senegalese scholar (1915-2007), the last surviving son of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba and fifth caliph of the Mourides from 1990 until his death. He founded hundreds of religious schools (daaras) whose students work the fields, ran a vast agricultural project at Khelcom, and continued the renovation of the Great Mosque of Touba.