by Amadou Hampaté Bâ ; edited by Roger Gaetani ; introduction by Louis Brenner.
Bloomington, Ind. :
World Wisdom,
c2008.
xxxiii, 236 p. :
ill., maps ;
23 cm.
The library of perenniel philosophy. Spiritual masters--East & West series
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-229) and index.
His life -- Roots -- The teacher -- The Bandiagara Zāwiya -- The origin of the practice of "eleven beads" and "twelve beads" -- The destiny of Sharīf Hamallah -- The meeting of Tierno Bokar with Sharīf Hamallah -- The beginning of the persecutions -- The ordeal -- His words -- The well -- The three lights -- The three degrees of faith -- The miserly merchant -- Thinking beings -- Does God love infidels? -- The rainbow -- Children of the same father -- Relations with other religions -- Being on guard against one's own "dust" -- Religion is one in its essence -- God, who confounds human intelligence -- The turbaned hypocrite -- Religious struggles -- Battle horses -- The bird fallen from its nest -- The little dog and paradise -- The two kinds of beauty -- White birds and black birds -- The Dhikr -- The three types of clothing -- The palace and the thatched cottage -- The responsibility of leaders (chiefs) -- The throne and the butcher boy -- Tradition and change -- His teachings -- First lesson: the Primordial Pact -- Second lesson: Mā 'd-Dīn -- Third lesson: a synthesis of the esoteric teachings : Sharī'a Bātiniyya (inner law): Sufism, the Tijani way.