خطة السنوسية للجامعة الإسلامية

خطة السنوسية للجامعة الإسلامية

Arslan describes what he presents as the Sanusi order's programme in North Africa: prepare religious and moral reform first, then open the African lands, then the wider Muslim world, aiming at a single Muslim state under one caliph. He says the Sanusi leader held that spiritual renewal and moral discipline had to precede political liberation. He also notes Ottoman unease in Tripoli that led the order to move to Jaghbub, and that the Sanusi declined to back the Mahdist revolt in Sudan. This is the plan as Arslan reports it; the wording was not checked here and should not be taken as settled Sanusi doctrine.