Who are Tijaniyya Muslims?

The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya’s origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern period.

How do I become a Tijaniyya?

To become a member of the order, one must receive the Tijānī wird, or a sequence of holy phrases to be repeated twice daily, from a muqaddam, or representative of the order.

Who is the leader of Tijaniyya in Africa?

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

When was Sheikh Ahmad Tijani born?

1955 (age 66 years)
Ahmad Tijani Ali Cisse/Date of birth

What is a tariqa in Islam?

A tariqa (or tariqah; Arabic: طريقة‎ ṭarīqah) is a school or order of Sufism, or specifically a concept for the mystical teaching and spiritual practices of such an order with the aim of seeking Haqiqa, which translates as “ultimate truth”. A tariqa has a murshid (guide) who plays the role of leader or spiritual director.

What does Tijaniyya mean?

The Tijāniyyah ( Arabic: الطريقة التجانية ‎, romanized : Al-Ṭarīqah al-Tijāniyyah, lit. ‘The Tijānī Path’) is a Sufi tariqa (order, path), originating in the Maghreb but now more widespread in West Africa, particularly in Senegal, The Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, Niger, Chad, Ghana, Northern and South-western Nigeria and some part of Sudan.

What is the Tijani path?

‘The Tijānī Path’) is a Sufi tariqa (order, path), originating in the Maghreb but now more widespread in West Africa, particularly in Senegal, The Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, Niger, Chad, Ghana, Northern and South-western Nigeria and some part of Sudan. The Tijāniyyah order is also present in the state of Kerala in India.

What is the silsila of tariqa?

Tariqas have silsilas ( سلسلة ‎) “chain, lineage of sheikhs”. Almost all orders except the Naqshbandi order claim a silsila that leads back to Muhammad through Ali. (The Naqshbandi Silsila goes back to Abu Bakr, the first Caliph of Sunni Islam, and then Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr.