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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.