Sufi Mystics of the Niger Desert: Sidi Mahmud and the Hermits of Air

This book examines existing evidence in the Niger Republic and adjacent areas of Saharan and non-Saharan Africa to study the life and teachings of the sixteenth-century Islamic saint and religious teacher Sidi Mahmud. The founder of the Sufi order, his teachings continue to be important to contemporary Islam and are of interest to students of comparative religions and Islamic studies.