A Saint in the City Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal

[...]the theology of the sublime and sovereign Deity is subordinated by many believers to an apparatus of intercession" (1998:23-24). According to the artist, he paints other images to make a living, but if he did not need to do this, he would only paint images of Amadou Bamba.19 Do his works possess and convey baraka, even when sold to foreign tourists? "Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities." Since 1994, research upon which the exhibition is based has been made possible by small grants from (in chronological order) the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Project for the Advanced Study of Art and Life in Africa, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and the African Studies Program at the University of Iowa; the Midwestern Universities Consortium for International Affairs; the J. Paul Getty Trust; the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Dak'Art (Dakar, Senegal); and the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, and the Faculty Senate Council on Research at UCLA. According to Mr. Ba, all copies of the photograph now available, including those in his own book (Ba 1979), are derived from the 1913 photograph published by Paul Marly (1917:222).