Meet For : On The Path Of The Prophet – Shaykh Ahmad Tijani

The course contains 8 weeks of classes. Week 1: Why learn about Sufism in historical context? Introducing Shaykh Ahmad Tijani. The Concept of the Tariqa Muhammadiyah. Discussion of sources in the field. Week 2: Eighteenth Century Islamic Intellectual History: the School of Ibrahim Kurani, the “Book of Five Jewels” in the Hijaz, the Khalwatiyya in Egypt, the North African Shadhiliyya, Muhammadan Sufism in West Africa. Week 3: Shaykh Ahmad Tijani, a Scholarly Portrait I: Islamic Law, Theology and wahdat al-wujud, Esoteric Sciences. Week 4: Shaykh Ahmad Tijani, a Scholarly Portrait II: Walking the Sufi Path, Prayers of the Tijaniyya. Week 5: Tijani’s perspectives on the potentiality of the human condition. The Vision of the Prophet. Week 6: The Seal of Saints and Hidden Pole. Special Prayers of the Tijaniyya. Week 7: The Way of Gratitude in an Age of Corruption. Week 8: Q & A, Discussion. Stories from later Tijani masters.