Serigne Mountakha Mbacké | |
Office: | Caliph of the Mouride Brotherhood |
Term Start: | January 2018 |
Predecessor: | Serigne Sidi Moukhtar Mbacké |
Birth Date: | 1930 |
Birth Place: | Senegal |
Serigne Mountakha Mbacké (born 1930) is the current, and eighth, Caliph of the Mouride brotherhood, a large Sufi order based in Senegal. He assumed office in January 2018 after the death of the seventh Caliph, Serigne Sidi Moukhtar Mbacké.[1] [2] He is the oldest grandson of the founder of the brotherhood, Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba, who died in 1927, and the son of Serigne Mouhamadou Bassirou Mbacké ibn Khadim Rassoul.[3]