Between hagiography and historiography. An analysis of shaykh Aḥmad Tijāni’s figure and doctrine
Abstract
This paper offers an overview on Aḥmad Tijāni’s (1737-1815) biography and doctrine. He was the founder of ṭarīqa Tijāniyya and one of the maximum exponents in contemporary neo-Sufism. Author without work and know about indirect references, shaykh Tijāni was involved in Islamic renewal movement (tajdīd) as alternative to Ottoman influence. Also, he promoted a regeneration of sharī‘a though gnosis in a millenarianist context. Our paper analyzes the context, the biography, his representations and principal doctrines of shaykh Aḥmad Tijāni, inquiring into hagiographic-doctrinal works like Jawāhir al-ma‘āni or Kāshif al-ḥijāb, offering a global panorama in Spanish about the figure of this important Moroccan Sufi shaykh.
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