The Sufi thought according to Abdullah bin Foudi

Abstract

Islam religion spread on the African continent through several means, the most notable one is the Sufi ways, which contributed greatly to this and due to the care of families to eduacate and train their children in the Sudan region, the Foudi family emerged, and Sheikh Abdullah bin Foudi was one of its most prominent sons, as he tried to reform and purify the conditions of Islam and Muslims from the blemishes of paganism and the ignorance that befell it, and in these research papers I tried to shed light on the biography of this personality whose star shone,and who created an important place for himself due to the strength of his thought and his Sufi formation resulting from his learning with a large number of his sheikhs on the one hand, and his influence by the great Sufis such as Sheikh Al-Suyuti and Ibn Al-Hajj and Al-Ghazali, on the other hand, As he turned many of their books into poems, which increased his religious and linguistic genius and reflected on his concept and his view to Sufism, for which he set foundations according to African Sufi thought and set its general rules that influenced the scientific development of the Sokoto region, and its shift from a reformist call based on recalling goodness and forbidding evil into a jihadist political movement that declared the word of truth and formed one of the most famous Islamic states in the central Sudan region, in which Sheikh Abd bin Foudi played a significant role in terms of his military prominence and the spread of his books and ideas alongside his brother Othman and his son
Mouhammad Bello.