Sanūsīyah

Sanūsīyah

Muslim Ṣūfī sect
also spelled  Sennusiya,  

      a Muslim Ṣūfī (mystic) brotherhood established in 1837 by Sīdī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī as-Sanūsī. In modern history, the head of the Sanūsī brotherhood was king of the federal kingdom of Libya from its creation in 1951 until it was superseded by a Socialist republic in 1969.

      The Sanūsīyah brotherhood was a reformist movement aimed at a return to the simple faith and life of early Islām. As a missionary order it sought to reform the lives of the Bedouins and convert the non-Muslim peoples of the Sahara and Central Africa. The vast majority of people called Sanūsī did not practice Sanūsī rites but were personal followers of as-Sanūsī al-Kabīr, the Grand Sanūsī, and his family.

      By the turn of the 20th century the order was well-established among most of the Bedouins and the oasis dwellers of Cyrenaica and the Sirtica, the Libyan Desert of Egypt, southern Tripolitania, Fezzan, central Sahara, and the Hejaz. The order was strongest in Cyrenaica, where it integrated its religious lodges (zāwīyahs) with the existing tribal system to such an extent that it was able to marshal its members against the Italians in World War I. After the war the Sanūsīs emerged as political spokesmen for the people of Cyrenaica in the negotiations with the British and the Italians and maintained this role throughout World War II. On Dec. 24, 1951, Idris (Idris I), the head of the Sanūsīyah, was proclaimed king of an independent United Kingdom of Libya. He was overthrown by a military junta led by Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi on Sept. 1, 1969.

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