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Identification

Aḥmad b. ʻUmar al-Tiǧānī أحمد بن عمر التجاني
Abū al-Ḥasan ابو الحسن

Titles: al-Faqīh, al-Faki, Alfaki

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One of the main figures of the Ethiopian Tiǧāniyya. He was native of Bornu and moved to Sudan (Khartoum) and Ḥijaz (Mecca and Medina) where it seems he was initiated to the Tiǧāniyya order. On his way back to Africa he stayed in Beni-Shangul and then settled in Minko (Western Wällega) for nearly 25 years. He was buried in Asosa (Beni-Shangul). Almost all the chains of transmission of the Tiǧāniyya in Ethiopia mount up to him, but he was also recognized as healer by Christians and pagans among the Mečča Oromo.

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