ABSTRACT
Tijāniyya Major sūfi (q.v.) order named after its founder Ahmad al-Tiājnī (1150/1737-8-1230/1815) who was born in Southern Algeria. He made the pilgrimage to Mecca (q.v.) and settled eventually in Fez (q.v.). The order began in 1196/1782 when Ahmad announced that he had seen a vision of the Prophet Muhammad who bade him begin his sūfī work. The early order did not stress zuhd (q.v.) and the ownership of wealth was accepted. A particular characteristic of the order is its stress on thanksgiving to God. The order gained popularity in North Africa as well as the Western Sudan, Senegal and elsewhere in West Africa.
