TIJANI, AHMAD AL- (1737-1815), founder of the Tijaniyah Sufi order. Abu al-`Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tijani was born at `Ayn Madi in southern Algeria. At the age of twenty he visited Fez, where he successively experimented with the litanies of several Sufi orders and was disappointed with all of them. Ten years later, in 1767,