Original sentence: 1900-1 – 1991), an African gnostic and spiritual leader of the Tijaniyyah, he re-converted to Shia Islam ʾIslām and adopted the name “Yaḥyà Ali يَحْيیٰ عَلَوِي”.Bonaud did his doctoral dissertation in French on Khomeini, entitled “The Philosophical Works of ʾImām Khumaynī”, a thesis reprinted and published as the book An Unknown Gnostic of the XXth-Century.He was making a visit to the African continent to address Muslims about the month of [[Muharram] and the guiding principles of Husayn ibn Ali.His body was transferred to Mashhad, Iran (where he had lived for fifteen–years prior) for his funeral rites and burial
Edited sentence: 1900-1 – 1991), an African gnostic and spiritual leader of the Tījāniy·yaħ, he re-converted to Shīʿī ʾIslām and adopted the name “Yaḥyà ʿAlawī يَحْيیٰ عَلَوِي”.Bonaud did his doctoral dissertation in French on ʾimām Rūḥ Aʟ·ʟᴀʜ Khumaynī, entitled “The Philosophical Works of ʾImām Khumaynī”, a thesis reprinted and published as the book An Unknown Gnostic of the XXth-Century.He was making a visit to the African country to address Muslims about the month of Muḥar·ram and the guiding principles of al-ʾImām al-Ḥusayn.His body was transferred to Mashhad al-Muqad·das, Iran (where he had lived for fifteen–years prior) for his funeral rites and burial