Life
She headed the Mouride community, of which her father had been the leader; he named her to be head of one section in 1943, having no male heirs and recognizing her abilities. In 1990 a history of her work in the community, ''L'Islam au féminin: Sokhna Magat Diop, cheikh de la confrérie mouride'' by Christian Coulon and Odile Reveyrand, was published.References
1910s births 2003 deaths Senegalese Muslims Senegalese religious leaders Female religious leaders {{Senegal-bio-stub Female Sufi mystics Female Islamic religious leaders