Ahmad al-Tijani

Ahmad al-Tijani
The house where Al Tijani was born in the old Ksar of Aïn Madhi, Algeria
The house where Al Tijani was born in the old Ksar of Aïn Madhi, Algeria
Mystic, Founder
Born1735
Aïn Madhi, Regency of Algiers
Died1815
Fez, Sultanate of Morocco
Venerated inIslam
Tradition or genre
Tijaniyyah

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

  1. ^ Jestice, Phyllis G. (2004). Holy people of the world: a cross-cultural encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 858. ISBN 978-1-57607-355-1.
  2. ^ Willis, John Ralph (2012). Studies in West African Islamic History: Volume 1: The Cultivators of Islam. Routledge. p. 234. ISBN 978-1-136-25160-3.
  3. ^ Gibb, H. A. R. (1970). Mohammedanism. OUP USA. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-19-500245-4.

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