Editing Layene (section)

==Overview==
The Layene community is open to all Muslims but was founded within the [[Lebou|Lebu]] ethno-linguistic group, many of whom originally lived in fishing communities on the [[Cap-Vert]] peninsula on the northern edge of [[Dakar]], Senegal.  

The Layene brotherhood is the smallest of the [[Muslim brotherhoods of Senegal]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bop|first=Codou|date=2005|title=Roles and the Position of Women in Sufi Brotherhoods in Senegal|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion|volume=73|pages=1099-1119}}</ref> and likely numbers between seventy and one-hundred thousand members.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Halverson|first=Jeffry R.|date=2020|title=Embodying the Mahdi: Islamic Messianism and the Body in Colonial Senegal|journal=Journal of Africana Religions|volume=8|pages=37-61}}</ref> 

The community leader is known as the [[Khalif]] Générale, who also has broad authority over temporal matters in the Layene quarter of the neighborhood of [[Yoff]], Senegal. Yoff is home to the Khalif, an elaborate [[mosque]], the mausoleum of its founder, and of several of his descendants. There is a notable Layene mosque as well as a substantial Layene community in [[Cambérène]], Senegal, where Seydina Issa Rouhou Laye is interred, and also in many other villages (like Malika, Yeumbeul, Ngor, Ouakam, Bargny).