Судан и Большой Ближний Восток

294 Nikolai A. Dobronravin New sources on the Tijānī Emigration fromWest Africa in the Early 20th Century Summary. Unexplored manuscript sources for the study of the Tijānī emigration fromWest Africa in the early 20th century are discussed in the article. Special attention is paid to the discussion on the choice between hijra and jihād in the correspondence between Alfā Hāshim and other Tijānī shaykhs in the wake of the colonial conquest of today’s Nigeria. Keywords. West Africa; European conquest; Suf ism; Tijānīya correspondance; migration. T he so-called “Umarian” emigration fromWestern Sudanic Africa (mostly within the borders of modern West African region) before the advancing forces of European colonization is a well-known episode of African history. A group of the relatives and followers of the famous