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Ahmad Tijani Ali Cisse

Spiritual leader of the Tijaniyya Sufi order

Sheikh Ahmad Tijani Ali Cisse

Born1955
NationalitySenegalese
OccupationSpiritual leader of the TijaniyyaSufi order
Years activeAugust 15, 2008 to present

Sheikh Ahmad Tijani Ali Cisse (born 1955) is the spiritual leader of the TijaniyyaSufi order. The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in Western Africa and its leader is responsible for nearly 300 million Sufi adherents.[1]

Early life and education

Cisse is the second son of Ali Cisse and Fatima Zahra Niasse, daughter of Ibrahim Niass, major leader of the Tijānī Sufi order.[2] He studied under his father Ali and grandfather Ibrahim in Senegal focusing mostly on Arabic literature and poetry.[2] Thereafter, he went to Egypt, where he lived with his elder brother, Sufi scholar Hassan Cissé, who was in his last year of advanced study. In 1974, he graduated first in his class at the Al-Azhar preparatory school receiving a diploma in Arabic.[2] In 1977, he received a B.A. in A

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Ahmad al-Tijani

Algerian Sufi leader (1735–1815)

For other people with the same name, see Ahmed Tijani.

Abū al-ʻAbbās Ahmad ibn Muhammad at-Tijāniyy or Ahmed Tijani (Arabic: أحمد التجاني, 1735–1815), was an Algerian Sharif who founded the Tijaniyyahtariqa (Sufi order).[1][2][3]

Life

Tijani was born in 1735 in Aïn Madhi, the son of Muhammad al-Mukhtar. He traced his descent according to the Berber custom, to his mother's tribe, Tijania.[5] When he was sixteen, Tijani lost both parents as a result of a plague. By then he was already married. He learned Quran under the tutelage of Mohammed Ba'afiyya in Aïn Madhi and also studied Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi's Islamic jusrispudence works that were written under Malikite rites. He also studied Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī's Risala ila al-sufiyya. In 1757, Tijani left his village for Fez. While there, he joined three Sufi brotherhoods, the Qadiriyya, the Nasiriyya, and the tariqa of Ahmad al-Habib b. Muhammed. In Fez, he met a seer who told him he would achieve spiritual revelation (fa

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[Excerpts from Zachary Wright, On the Path of the Prophet: Shaykh Ahmad Tijani and the Tariqa Muhammadiyya (Atlanta, 2005), p. 24-77. Posted with permission of publisher.]

Sidi Abu Abbas Ahmad al-Tijani was born in the Southwest Algerian oasis town of Ain Madi on the twelfth of Safar in the year 1150 (1737 C.E.). He was a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad through Fatima Zahra’s first son Hasan and later through Mawlay Idris, the celebrated founder of Morocco. His father was Sidi Muhammad b. al-Mukhtar b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Salam, a prominent scholar whose family hailed from the Moroccan Abda tribe and whose grandfather had immigrated to Ain Madi fleeing a Portuguese invasion less than a century before Shaykh Tijani’s birth. This same ancestor was perhaps one of the more renowned of the Tijani line prior to Shaykh Ahmad Tijani, and it is reported that he used to engage so much in spiritual retreat (khalwa) that he would have to walk to the five prayers in the mosque with his face covered, otherwise onlookers would fall so heedlessly in love with him that they would the

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