Tijānīyah

Tijānīyah

▪ Ṣūfī order
      an especially proselytizing order of Islāmic mystics (Ṣūfīs) widespread in northern and western Africa and the Sudan. Founded by Aḥmad At-Tijānī (1737–1815), formerly of the Khalwatī order, about 1781 in Fez, Mor., it places great emphasis on good intentions and actions rather than on elaborate or extreme ritual.

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