Gilles Holder — 'Chérif Ousmane Madani Haidara and the Islamic Movement Ansar Dine' (Cahiers d'études africaines, 2012)

Peer-reviewed academic study by Gilles Holder (2012) on Chérif Ousmane Madani Haidara and the Ansar Dine movement; it calls him the movement's Maliki 'spiritual guide' and quotes the movement's own site claiming more than one hundred thousand members in twenty-four countries.