Sidi Ahmed al-Tidjani
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Mawlana Ahmed ibn Mohammed Tijani al-Hassani al-Maghribi (1735–1815), in Arabic سيدي أحمد التجاني (Sidi Ahmed Tijani) is the founder of the Tijaniyya Sūfī order. The al-Tijani was born in Aïn Madhi
Aïn Madhi
Aïn Madhi is a town and commune in Laghouat Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 6,263.-References:...

, Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

 and died in Fez, Morocco at the age of 80.
Shaykh Tijani was born in 1735 in Ain Madhi, a small village in western-central Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

 about 30 miles (48.3 km) from the Laghuat (al-Aghwat).
 
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