Sufi politico-religious order that led Libyan resistance to Italy and provided the post-war monarchy.
The Senussi-led Kingdom of Libya was overthrown in a bloodless coup on 1 September 1969 by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's Free Officers Movement while King Idris I was abroad; Gaddafi disbanded the Senussi order and proclaimed the Libyan Arab Republic.
Evans-Pritchard's classic study of the Sanusi order and its resistance in Cyrenaica.
Modern Libyan history tracing the Sanusiyya from resistance to monarchy.