Abū Bakr al-ʿAtīq - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Brigaglia, Andrea
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Abū Bakr al-ʿAtīq b. Khiḍr b. Abī Bakr b. Mūsā al-Kashināwī (known in Hausa as Shehi Abubakar Atiƙu Sanka; 1909-74) was a leading scholar of the Tijāniyya Ṣūfī order of Kano (in northern Nigeria) in the twentieth century and one of the most influential voices of the movement of Ṣūfī revival known as fayḍa Tijāniyya (the Tijāniyya was founded in Abū Samghūn in Algeria in 1195/1781 by the shaykh and religious scholar Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Tijānī, d. 1815, and it gained influence in much of