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Paper short abstract:

The aim of this paper is an approach to the Baye-Faal movement inside the Muridism from transnational and gender perspectives, comparing its origins as a Sufi heterodoxy in Senegal with the current case studies in Madrid and Granada (Spain), within the migrant diaspora.

Paper long abstract:

The main aim of this paper is an approach to the Baye-Faal movement (Bayefaalism, henceforth) inside the Muridism from transnational and gender perspectives, comparing its origins as a Sufi heterodoxy in Senegal with the current case studies in Madrid and Granada (Spain), within the migrant diaspora.

The objectives are: 1) An introduction to the main features of the Baye-Faal members within the Order, with an special emphasis on the singularity of the Murid Sufism and its current element of migratory transnationalism; 2) An approach to the origins of Bayefaalism and its evolution to the present, persistently straddling between the extreme profession of faith and a bordering on heresy heterodoxy; 3) A report of the case studies on Bayefaalism in Lavapiés (Madrid, Spain) and the Albayzín caves (Granada, Spain), as examples of Bayefaalism recreated within the migratory diaspora; 4) A comparative reflection on globalization and transnationalism as key features of the Sufi heterodoxia remarkably represented by Baye-Faal in diaspora, and Bayefaalism as an specifically migratory adscription, where the alleged tradition is recreated and adapted in culturally diverse contexts.