This is a listing of some of the more prominent English language sites treating the Tariqa Tijaniyya. There are of course a good number of other sites, mostly in Arabic and French, but also in Spanish. Prominent Arabic sites include grandzawiyah.com, cheikh-skiredj.com, alsiyada.org, and altijanya.com. The more comprehensive French sites include abdelaziz-benabdallah.org, lafayda.net, tidjaniya.com, faydhatijaniya.org, and ansaroudine.org.
Comprehensive site devoted to the long tradition of Sufism in Morocco, with special emphasis on the Tijaniyya. Content manager Sidi El Hassane Debbarh Idrissi Hassani includes a great number of primary sources of relevance to the Tariqa in both Arabic and English translation. The site also has numerous articles on important topics such as khatmiyya (sealhood) and Salat al-Fatih.
Named after the “mother” zawiya in Fes, the main version of this site is in Arabic, but the English version has some useful information concerning the conditions of the Tariqa, the merits of the Tijani dhikr, and other issues.
One of the first websites devoted to the Tijaniyya, maintained by Abd al-Hakim Halim, an elder of the Tariqa based in Detroit who also produces the African American Islamic Institute Newsletter. The site has some important works available online, such as Shaykh Hassan Cisse’s Spirit of Good Morals, a commentary on Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse’s Ruh al-Adab.
Sufi Tariqahs Forum (UK): Tijaniya Tariqah
Contains some useful translations of primary texts of the Tijaniyya, done by Muhammad Hassan, a Tijani disciple in Great Britain.
Islamic Community Center, Altanta, Georgia
Content put together by Ihsan Muhammad, an American who became hafiz al-Qur’an in Medina-Baye, Senegal, and who has now started a school in Atlanta, GA. The site has information about the school and some speeches of Shaykh Hassan Cisse, as well as purchase information for selected publications on the Tijaniyya.
The Islamic Tijaniya Foundation of America
Maintained by Senegalese immigrants to the United States associated with the lineage of al-Hajj Malik Sy, the site contains a basic introduction to the history and practices of the Tijaniyya. Headed by Shaykh Ahmad Sy (a grandson of al-Hajj Malik) now based in the Washington, D.C. area, the site also contains updates on a variety of conferences periodically hosted by Shaykh Ahmad. This site is also available in French.
Medina Baye Historical and Social Research Committee
This site has a wealth of information on the Tijaniyya in Medina-Baye, Senegal, in the form of source documents (scanned and available online) and academic articles. The author is Joseph Hill, who has recently completed his thesis (Yale University, Anthropology) on the followers of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse. Mr. Hill has spent several years studying the Tijaniyya in Senegal and Mauritania, mostly from an ethnographical perspective.
This site is devoted to a Ghanian Tijani shaykh who has been active in America for nearly twenty years, and who is now based in Chicago. Among other things, Shaykh Tijani Ben Omar is an accomplished muezzin and nasheed artist. Several examples of his work are available online.
This is the mirror site of a very comprehensive French site dedicated to the Tijaniyya, maintained by a Muqaddam based in France. Most of the English links are still under construction, but the site otherwise contains some very nice pictures and even video clips of Tijani wazifa and dhikr juma’a in Fes and in Ain Madhi, Algeria.
http://tijaniyya.blogspot.com/
A new blog from Ismail Marchman, a Tijani from Colorado (USA), with some interesting photos and a few primary sources in translation.
African American Islamic Institute
AAII is an international humanitarian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), founded in 1988 in Senegal, West Africa by Shaykh Hassan Ali Cisse. AAII’s Mission is to develop sustainable human and natural resources that promote Education, Health Care, Empowerment of Women, Protection of Children, Alleviation of Hunger and Poverty and Promotion of Peace.