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Jun 24, 2015 · CNN — The followers of the Baye Fall aren’t your typical Muslims. They show their devotion a bit differently: with dreadlocks and reggae. Often, members of the Baye Fall are confused for...
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- Colin Hancock,Daisy Carrington
Jun 4, 2019 · Unlike many Muslims, the Baye Fall do not fast during Ramadan. In fact, they do not participate in many Muslim practices, such as praying five times each day or abstaining from alcohol....
- Katie Jane Fernelius
Jun 29, 2015 · Lifestyle. Meet the Baye Fall of Senegal. F2FA June 29, 2015. The Baye Fall is a Senegalese Muslim sect that is most easily identifiable by their dreadlocked hair, bright patchwork garbs,...
Jul 4, 2016 · Africa. 4 July 2016. Asia. UK. Europe. Middle East. News. US & Canada. In Senegal, members of one branch of Sufi Islam, known as the Baye Fall, haven't been fasting during the holy month of...
Mar 28, 2018 · Baye Fall: Roots in Spirituality, Fashion, and Resistance is a stunning photographic series by award-winning New York-based documentary photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn. The exhibition highlights the culture and people of the Baye Fall, Senegal’s Sufi Muslim order also known as the Mourides.
All Baye Fall, meanwhile, have an unorthodox relationship with the traditional tenets of their religion. While other Mourides adhere to the five pillars of Islam, the Baye Fall observe...
His followers were the precursor to a subgroup of the Mouride brotherhood today referred to as the Baye Fall (Wolof: Baay Faal), many of whom substitute hard labor and dedication to their marabout for the usual Muslim pieties. Sheikh Ibrahima Fall was one of the first of Amadou Bamba's disciples and one of the most illustrious.
