El Hadji Omar Foutiyou Tall : L’humaniste audelà Le Jihâd

Abstract. Islam has honored man and restored to him the rights he has long been entitled to. Having considered human society as one and the same family, and life as a human entity, El Hadji Omar has always fought for the preservation of human rights and human dignity as a guarantee of a peaceful and integral society. However, for having always been in delicacy with the native and his string of disciplinary and arbitrary sanctions as well that the traditional pagan powers, with the aim of restoring the dignity of a disjointed society, terrorized by the rest, and whose hope for a better life had gradually stolen. El Hadji Omar is often described as a fighting man whose life boiled down to jihadist tribulations. Such a description could, no doubt, misrepresent anthropocentric humanism, which is admirably reflected in his work, especially Tadhkira al-Ghâfilîn. It should come as no surprise that El Hadji Omar is an accommodating humanist and a zealous jihadist, in the sense that his military action was inspired, not by worldly glory, but by the liberation of his people from the remnants of polytheistic cult and colonial hold that have long undermined the society of the time. Mots-clés : El Hadji Omar, jihâdiste, Banû Âdam, aṣ-ṣabr, ka῾ba, jihâd an-nafs. Keywords: El Hadji Omar, jihâdiste, Banû Âdam, aṣ-ṣabr, ka῾ba, jihâd an-nafs.