Muhammad al-Tijani#Works
{{Short description|Tunisian Shia Scholar}}
{{For|Sidi Al-Tijani, the North African Sufi saint|Ahmad al-Tijani}}{{About|3=Mohammad Tijani (disambiguation)}}{{Infobox religious biography
| religion = Islam
| region = North Africa
| image = File:Muhammad al-Tijani al samawi.jpg
| era = Modern era
| name = Muhammad al-Tijani
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|02|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = Gafsa, French protectorate of Tunisia
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| denomination = Shia
| school_tradition = Usuli Twelver Shi'a
| influences = Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i
| influenced =
| native_name = محمد التيجاني
| honorific prefix = Sayyid
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Muhammad al-Tijani ({{langx|ar|محمد التيجاني|translit=Muḥammad al-Tījānī}}; born 2 February 1943) is a Tunisian Islamic scholar, academic, and theologian. He converted from Sunni Islam to Twelver Shi'a.
Personal life
Al-Tijani was born in a Tunisian Sunni Muslim family of the Maliki school. Previously, his family added “al-Tijani” to their name after adopting the Tijani sufi order of Ahmad al-Tijani. He was eighteen years of age when the Les Scouts Tunisiens agreed to send him as one of six Tunisian representatives to the first conference for Islamic and Arab scouts which took place in Mecca. He used the opportunity to perform the Hajj. He stayed twenty five days in Saudi Arabia, during which he met many prominent Salafi scholars, listened to their lectures and became heavily influenced by the Salafi movement.
Upon returning to Tunisia, al-Tijani started actively promoting and spreading Salafism during the religious classes and sermons that he gave, including in the Great Mosque of Kairouan. He then traveled to Egypt’s al-Azhar University. On the way back to Tunisia, al-Tijani met a Shi'i Iraqi lecturer from the University of Baghdad named Mun'im. He came to Cairo to submit his Ph.D. thesis at al-Azhar University and Mun'im invited him to Iraq. Al-Tijani spent several weeks with Mun'im; visited Baghdad and Najaf, and met with several leading Twelver Shi'i scholars, including Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, and Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i, who taught him about Shi'a Islam. After long debates with the Shi'i scholars, he became a Shi'a Muslim.Note: Most of this information is from Al-Tijani's own work, available in the English translation of Then I Was Guided. See [http://www.al-islam.org/guided/6.html al-Islam.org]
==Works==
Al-Tijani's books are banned in some countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Malaysia. He has written six books:
- Then I Was Guided ([https://www.al-islam.org/then-i-was-guided-muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi here] at al-islam.org)
- Ask Those Who Know ([https://www.al-islam.org/ask-those-who-know-muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi here] at al-islam.org)
- To Be with the Truthful ([https://www.al-islam.org/be-with-truthful-muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi here] at al-islam.org)
- The Shi'ah are the real Ahlul-Sunnah ([https://www.al-islam.org/shiah-are-real-ahlul-sunnah-muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi here] at al-islam.org), approx. 'The Shi'a are the real followers of the Sunnah'
- All Solutions Are with the Prophet's Progeny ([https://www.al-islam.org/all-solutions-are-with-prophet-s-progeny-muhammad-al-tijani here] at al-islam.org)
- Black Thursday ([https://www.al-islam.org/black-thursday-muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi here] at al-islam.org)
References
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External links
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- [https://www.al-islam.org/person/muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi A series of books by Muhammad al-Tijani with English translations]
- [http://al-islam.org/short/Tijani.htm Striving for Right Guidance] — A speech delivered by Dr. Muhammad al-Tijani al-Samawi
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Category:Tunisian Shia clerics
Category:Tunisian Shia Muslims
Category:Converts to Shia Islam from Sunni Islam