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, conventionally Touba , a simple hamlet of the Baol in Senegal which has become the sacred city and capital of the Murīdiyya [q.v.] dervish order. It lies 190 km/120 miles to the east of Dakar [q.v.] and is in process of becoming the second city of Senegal. It should have 200,000 inhabitants by the end of the 20th century, and every year it receives two millions of the faithful from all over the country for an annual pilgrimage (the Great Magal). Ṭūbā is a sacred enclosure, and has been for a long time an autonomous zone outside the authority of the state’s agents and controlled solely by a “ k̲h̲alīfa -general”, his helpers and a militia of the order, the Bāy Fall.
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