Welcome to the Tijani Tariqah Facebook Page, a
page dedicated to providing reliable information
about the Tijani Sufi Way. The Tariqa Tijaniyya,
sometimes referred to as the Tariqa Ahmadiyya,
Muhammadiyya or Ibrahimiyya Hanifiyya, was
founded in Algeria in 1784 by order of the Prophet
Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him
peace, in a waking vision to Sidi Abu Abbas Ahmad
ibn Muhammad al-Tijani al-Hassani, may God be
pleased with him. This Sufi way has since spread
all over the world, with large Tijani communities
today found in Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Egypt,
Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, South
Africa, Indonesia, America and elsewhere.
Estimating the numbers of Tijanis around the world
is difficult, but conservative estimates would
probably place the number somewhere around 100
million. Since the nineteenth century the Tijaniyya
has been the most prominent Sufi order on the
African continent Like most traditional Sufi
confraternities the Tijaniyya is inseparable