La Sanūsiyya tra spiritualità e resistenza

The twentieth century saw the Sanūsiyya confraternity as a protagonist of the historical events that characterized Libya and neighbouring territories. The spread of the sanūsī religious thought among the tribes, especially in Cyrenaica, allowed the confraternity to ground the basis of its religious doctrine which soon became a social reformist movement dominant in the region, capable of hindering the colonialist claims on Libya and its neighbouring areas.