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It is a book of universal import with a message of truth, peace, and the power of nonviolence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Michelle Kimball is to be congratulated in making the life and thought of Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba, the great Senegalese Sufi master of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, accessible to the English-speaking world. His spiritual life as well as peaceful combat against colonialism have much to teach contemporary Muslims. 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