Gudfiyya

The Gudfiyya (or Goudfiyya, and other spellings) brotherhood was a small, militant religious organization created by the Sufi Qadiriyya shaykh Ma al-'Aynayn, in his battle against French and Spanish colonizers in the western Maghreb (in North-west Africa).

A member of the Gudfiyya in 1905 assassinated Xavier Coppolani, stalling French attempts to attack the Adrar emirate in today's northern Mauritania.[1]

References
  1. "Ma al-'Aynayn's Anti-Colonial Insurgency | the Polynational War Memorial". www.war-memorial.net. Retrieved 2024-05-06.


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