Muhammad al-Tijani

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Tunisian scholar
Muhammad al-Tijani
Name
Muhammad al-Tijani
Birth 1943
School/tradition Shi'a Twelver
Influenced by Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
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For Sidi Al-Tijani, the North African Sufi saint, see Ahmad al-Tijani.

Muhammad al-Tijani al-Samawi (Arabic: محمد التيجاني السماوي‎),(born 2 February 1943 in Gafsa, Tunisia) is a Tunisian Muslim scholar,academic and theologian.

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[edit] Biography

Mohammad al-Tijani al-Samawi was a Tunisian student who, upon making Hajj, was influenced by orthodox Saudi teachings, against saint veneration and tomb visitation, which were central to the North African Sufi tradition.

A few years later, al-Samawi was in Egypt on an Islamic tour of the Middle East and ran into an Iraqi student, Mun'im, who invited him to Iraq to learn about the doctrines of the twelver Shi'a. Al-Samawi spent several weeks with Mun'im and visited Baghdad, and Najaf, and met with several leading Shi'a scholars, including Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei (al-Khu'i), Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (Grand Ayatollah to-be) and Allameh Tabatabaei, who spent hours teaching him about Shia Islam. [1]. Eventually, he considered himself converted to the Shi'i school of thought.


[edit] Works

He wrote five books:


[edit] Shi'a view

Muhammad al-Tijani became a respected Shi'a scholar.[citation needed]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Most of this biography is from al-Samawi's own work available in the English translation of Then I was Guided

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