Serigne Saliou Mbacke

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Serigne Saliou Mbacke (born May 1915) is the current Grand Marabout of the Mouride movement in Senegal.

Shaykh Salih Mbacke also called Serigne Saliou Mbacke is the fifth caliph of Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba (Khadimoul Rassoul). Mbacke was the third or fourth born child from a mother whose children died at birth. In fact, it is known to some that Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba said that this one (Shaykh Salih) would stay long. He throughout his farms feeds, clothes, shelters over 8000 students ranging from 4 to 19 or older and pays the salaries of over 300 teachers who teach the noble Quran to these children. He also did the renovation of the great mosque of Touba by covering it with marble. As the biggest land-owner in Senegal, Mbacke recently pledged about twenty two millions dollars to the holy city of Touba for the continuous renovation of the mosque and other sectors of the city like hospitals, roads, water supply among other things.