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==Career==
==Career==
Tijani is currently National Advisor International Association of Sufism USA; Advisor Islamic Studies and Research Association ISSRA USA; President and Imam Universal Islamic Center USA; Member of the World Council of Religious Leader under the auspices of The [[United Nations]] Millennium World Peace Summit.<ref name="jamiyah">{{cite web |url=http://www.jamiyah.org.sg/subindex.asp?id=A146_11|title=Erudite scholar Shaykh Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar at Jamiyah Singapore|publisher=Jamiyah|year=2011|accessdate=March 15, 2012}}</ref>
Tijani is the leader of the [[Tijaniyyah]], which came to the United States in the 1970s.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States">{{cite book |last=Cesari|first=Jocelyne|title=Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zVkkAQAAIAAJ&q=Ahmed+Tijani+Ben+Omar&dq=Ahmed+Tijani+Ben+Omar&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBGoVChMIjN6FouySxgIVsiDbCh27bQD1|year=2007|publisher=[[Greenwood Press]]|page=607|isbn=978-0313336256}}</ref> He is also the National Advisor International Association of Sufism USA; Advisor Islamic Studies and Research Association ISSRA USA; President and Imam Universal Islamic Center USA; Member of the World Council of Religious Leader under the auspices of The [[United Nations]] Millennium World Peace Summit.<ref name="jamiyah">{{cite web |url=http://www.jamiyah.org.sg/subindex.asp?id=A146_11|title=Erudite scholar Shaykh Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar at Jamiyah Singapore|publisher=Jamiyah|year=2011|accessdate=March 15, 2012}}</ref>


He has travelled to over 105 countries worldwide giving numerous lectures and presentations at conferences, universities and public gatherings around the world. Hosted and directed several national and international Islamic conferences for peace.<ref name="gatewaytodivinemercy">{{cite web |url=http://www.gatewaytodivinemercy.com/shaykh-ahmed-tijani-ben-omar.html|title=Shaykh Ahmed Tijani|publisher=Gateway To Divine Mercy|date=June 25, 2006|accessdate=March 15, 2012}}</ref>
He has traveled to over 105 countries worldwide giving numerous lectures and presentations at conferences, universities and public gatherings around the world. Hosted and directed several national and international Islamic conferences for peace.<ref name="gatewaytodivinemercy">{{cite web |url=http://www.gatewaytodivinemercy.com/shaykh-ahmed-tijani-ben-omar.html|title=Shaykh Ahmed Tijani|publisher=Gateway To Divine Mercy|date=June 25, 2006|accessdate=March 15, 2012}}</ref>


Tijani spends his time between the United States and [[Africa]]. He has been involved in peacemaking work in Chicago's [[inner city|inner cities]] and inter-faith activity across the world. He is an ardent public opponent of [[Bi-la kaifa|literalism]] and [[Islamic extremism|extreme]] [[Wahhabi]] theology.<ref name="gatewaytodivinemercy"/>
Tijani spends his time between the United States and [[Africa]]. He has been involved in peacemaking work in Chicago's [[inner city|inner cities]] and inter-faith activity across the world. He is an ardent public opponent of [[Bi-la kaifa|literalism]] and [[Islamic extremism|extreme]] [[Wahhabi]] theology.<ref name="gatewaytodivinemercy"/>

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Alma materKulliyat Athakaffah Al Arabiyah
Methodist Missionary High School
Occupation(s)Islamic scholar, Imam
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
TitleShaykh
Children2
Websitewww.ahmedtijani.org

Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar (

Arabic: أحمد تيجاني بن عمر; born January 30, 1950) is a Ghanaian-born American Islamic scholar and Imam
.

Education

Tijani was born in Accra, Ghana. He specialised in Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, including comparative religion, astronomy, spiritual science and healing, divine poetry and chanting, fine arts and culture.[1]

He took Arabic and

History through the Methodist Missionary High School in Ghana. He specialised in media-broadcasting and mass-communications and also obtained masters in comparative religion. He studied and memorized the Qur'an at the age of 15 and the Bible by the age of 20.[1]

Career

Tijani is the leader of the Tijaniyyah, which came to the United States in the 1970s.[2] He is also the National Advisor International Association of Sufism USA; Advisor Islamic Studies and Research Association ISSRA USA; President and Imam Universal Islamic Center USA; Member of the World Council of Religious Leader under the auspices of The United Nations Millennium World Peace Summit.[3]

He has traveled to over 105 countries worldwide giving numerous lectures and presentations at conferences, universities and public gatherings around the world. Hosted and directed several national and international Islamic conferences for peace.[4]

Tijani spends his time between the United States and

Wahhabi theology.[4]

Personal life

Tijani has two sons, Abul Feid Ahmed Tijani and Muhammed Salis-Ahmed Tijani.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Shaykh Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar". Radical Middle Way. August 19, 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  2. ISBN 978-0313336256
    .
  3. ^ "Erudite scholar Shaykh Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar at Jamiyah Singapore". Jamiyah. 2011. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Shaykh Ahmed Tijani". Gateway To Divine Mercy. June 25, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2012.

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