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Sokhna Magat Diop

Sokhna Magat Diop (c. 1917–18 March 2003) was a Senegalese religious leader.

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.

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