“ | First, Senegal has been ranked by some authorities as the leading democracy in the Islamic world since 2000. The country has been brilliantly written about by anthropologists and historians, but many of Senegal's experiences and creations have not been sufficiently incorporated into modern democratization theory. | ” |
— Mamadou Diouf, Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal, Columbia University Press (2013), p. 205, ISBN 9780231162623 [1] |