This entry examines Muslim women, gender, and pilgrimage in West Africa with illustrating examples from Nigeria and Senegal. After a short overview of Islamic pilgrimage and gender, it describes Senegalese Murid women's (the Muridiyya is a Sufi order) pilgrimage to Porokhane, Senegal, in memory of Mame Diarra Bousso, the mother of the founder of M…