Qadiriyyah Movement in the Sokoto Caliphate.

Qadiriyyah Movement is one of the most celebrated Sufi orders that captured the attention of many followers in the Muslim world right from its initiation to the present generation and spread in many Islamic States and Empires both in Asia and Africa. The group is notably associated with voluntary ritual practices centered on some daily prayers, meditations, litany, and repetitive pronouncement of the names of Allah the highest. The movement published several books to explain their principles and practices deduced from the divine expressions of the Qur'an and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW), based on which it convinced most of the people in the Sokoto Caliphate in the earliest period and most of its citizens adhered to its principles and ritual practices in the period subjected for the study. Moreover, its adoption extends to the present North-Western Nigeria.