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"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. While introducing the group's founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1735-1815), Wright's focus is on the wider network in which the order developed-a veritable global Islamic revival whose scholars commanded large followings, shared key ideas, and produced literature read widely throughout the Muslim world. They were linked, Wright shows, through chains of knowledge transmission in the face of widespread Muslim prejudice against Sufism"--

Islam --- Sufism --- Tijānīyah --- History --- Tijānī, Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, --- Tijani Sufi Order --- Tijaniyya --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Tijānī, --- Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Tijjānī, --- Ahmad al-Tijani, --- Aḥmad al-Tijjānī, --- Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Tijānī, --- Tidiane, Ahmadou, --- Tijānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, --- Tijjānī, Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, --- Tidjani, Ahmad, --- Tidjani, Ahmed, --- تجاني، أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد --- تيجاني, أبي العباس أحمد بن محمد --- تيجاني, ابي العباس احمد بن محمد --- Tidjāniya --- Tijaniyyah --- Tijānīyah - Africa, North --- Sufism - Africa, North --- Islam - History - 18th century --- Tijānī, Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, - 1737 or 1738-1815 --- Tijāniyya; Aḥmad al-Tijānī; Ṭarīqa Muḥammadiyya; Neo-Sufism; Sufism; Islamic mysticism; Islamic sainthood; saintly hierarchy; seal of saints; Mawlay Sulayman; Ḥamdūn Ibn al-Ḥājj; Scholars of Fez (Fes); Muslim scholars of Algeria; Muslim scholars of Morocco; Muslim scholars and the state in precolonial North Africa; Sufism in Africa; Islam in Africa; Islamic scholarship in Africa; Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History; Islamic Intellectual History; Islamic Scholarly Renewal; Islamic Revivalism; Islamic Renaissance; Waḥdat al-wujūd; Sufi gnosis; ʿilm al-asrār; Islamic esotericism; Islamic occult; Sufism and Islamic law; dreams and visions in Islam; vision of the Prophet Muḥammad; Islamic Humanism; Islamic Actualization; Ibrāhim al-Kūrānī; Muḥammad Ḥayāt al-Sindī; Kūrānī School; ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī; Muṣṭafā al-Bakrī; Muḥammad al-Ḥifnī (Ḥifnāwī); Maḥmūd al-Kurdī; Khalwatiyya Sufi Order; Muḥammad al-Sammān; Sammāniyya Sufi Order; Al-Jawāhir al-maʿānī; al-Jawāhir al-khams; Salwat al-anfās. --- Tijānīyah