The Sufi Saint of the Portuguese Empire: Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani and the Tijaniyya
- Date of account
- 1990s–2000s scholarship and transnational practice
- Location
- Fez, Morocco, and Tijani networks in North and West Africa
- Source
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- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Tijaniyya, founded by Ahmad al-Tijani and centered historically in Fez, offers a well-documented lead for studying initiatory authority, visions, litanies, saintly intercession, and the transnational circulation of esoteric Islam. Scholarship from the 1990s and 2000s examines how Moroccan institutions and West African communities negotiated lineage and legitimacy. The material is religious history and ethnography, not an independently verified account of supernatural intervention. Researchers should distinguish al-Tijani’s hagiographic biography, order regulations, colonial records, and contemporary devotional practice.
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