The following list of some of the more eminent scholars of the Tijaniyya cannot hope to be comprehensive, but only aims at providing an introduction to nature of the personalities who have attached themselves to this Muhammadan Path. By “scholar” here we of course mean one who has knowledge of the spectrum of the Islamic sciences (Qur’an, Fiqh, Usul, Hadith, Tafsir, Aqida, Adab, Tasawwuf, etc), and by his example balances both the Shari’a and Haqiqa, the Law and the Reality. But more importantly, a knowledgeable person in Islam as in the Tariqa is one who first and foremost has taqwa, “fear” or consciousness of God; as in the Qur’an, “Fear Allah and He will teach you.”
Founder
Companions
Sidi Ali Harazem
Sidi Ali Tamasini
Sidi Muhammad Ghali
Shaykh Ibrahim Riyahi
Sidi Muhammad Hafiz Shinqiti
First Generation
Al-Hajj Umar al-Futi Tal
Sidi Ahmad Abdalawi
Sidi Muhammad al-‘Arabi Sa’ih
Second Generation
Al-Hajj Abdoulaye Niasse
Al-Hajj Malik Sy
Third Generation
Shaykh Muhammad Hafiz Misri
Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse
Contemporary scholars
