Sheikh Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara is a
religious
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figure in
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...
who has been the president of the
High Islamic Council of Mali since April 2019. He is a follower of the
Maliki school
The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary s ...
of Islam
[Holder, Gilles]
"Chérif Ousmane Madani Haidara and the Islamic Movement Ansar Dine. A Popular Malian Reformism in Search of Autonomy"
''Cahiers d’études africaines'', vol. no 206-207, no. 2, 2012, pp. 389-425. and a
Sufi
Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...
.
In 1991, Haïdara established the
Sufi-based Islamic movement Ansar Dine (also written Ançar Dine) - not to be confused with the terrorist organization
Ansar Dine
Ansar Dine ( ar, أنصار الدين ''ʾAnṣār ad-Dīn'', also transliterated ''Ançar Deen''; meaning " helpers of the religion" (Islam) also known as Ansar al-Din (abbreviated as AAD) was a Salafi jihadist group led by Iyad Ag Ghaly. Ans ...
operating in the north of Mali.
The movement is strong in southern Mali, the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso,
and with Malian diaspora.
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Malian Sufis
Living people
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