Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi

Al-Senussi was born in al-Wasita near Mostaganem, Algeria,Shillington, Kevin (2005) "Libya: Muhammad Al-Sanusi (c.1787–1859) and the Sanusiyya" Encyclopedia of African History Fitzroy Dearborn, New York, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ftz_gtO-pngC&pg=PA830 p. 830-831], {{ISBN|1-57958-245-1}} and was named al-Senussi after a venerated Muslim teacher. He was an Algerian Walad Sidi Abdallah tribesman who claimed descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad.{{cite book|author=Juan Eduardo Campo|title=Encyclopedia of Islam |year=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-2696-8|pages=443}}{{cite book|author=Paolo Sensini|title=Sowing Chaos Libya in the Wake of Humanitarian Intervention|year=2016|publisher=SCB Distributors |isbn=978-0-9860853-8-3|pages=15}}{{Cite journal |last=MARTIN |first=B. G. |date=1992 |title=A FUTURE SANUSI CALIPHATE? MUHAMMAD ʿALI AL-SANUSI AND HIS "DURAR AL-SANIYA" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41930867 |journal=Journal of Asian History |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=160–168 |jstor=41930867 |issn=0021-910X}} The family takes its name from a religious Sheikh named Sanussi who lived in Tlemcen during the 13th century.

Unable to cross Algeria because of the French occupation, the beginning, the centre of Imam Mohammed Ali El Senussi's call was Jebel Akhdar and he built a mosque in Bayda of Cyrenaica and named it after himself, then he moved to Jaghbub in Cyrenaica from where the mosques spread to the remaining cities of Barqa and Tripoli.[http://24dec1951.com/libya/the-senussi-family.html The Senussi Family] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121226195534/http://24dec1951.com/libya/the-senussi-family.html |date=2012-12-26 }} Retrieved 1 October 2011.

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|IdI=King Idris I
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|ZUB=az-Zubayr
bin Ahmad
as-Sharif

|AA=Abdullah bin
Muhammad al-
Abid as-Senussi}}

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• Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi

• S. Khuda Bukhsh, Studies Indian and Islamic, Routledge 2001, p. 28 {{ISBN|0-415-24464-1}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=gX8T0-OCoygC&q=S.+Khuda+Bukhsh+2001] (retrieved 26-09-2011)

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Category:Senussi dynasty

Category:Algerian Sufis

Category:1787 births

Category:1859 deaths

Category:People from Mostaganem Province

Category:Al-Azhar University alumni

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Category:Founders of Sufi orders

Category:18th-century Arab people

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