The Removal of Confusion: Concerning the Flood of the Saintly Seal
The Kashif al-Ilbas is the magnum opus of twentieth-century West Africa’s greatest Muslim leader, Shaykh al-Islam Ibrahim Abd-Allah Niasse (1900-1975).
Shaykh Ibrahim was a Muslim scholar and sage of the Tijaniyya, a Sufi order which has spread to all corners of the Muslim world since Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani (d. 1815, Fes) established the confraternity in North Africa in the late eighteenth century.
Shaykh Ibrahim had unparalleled success in propagating the Tijaniyya, and those owing their initiation into the order to Shaykh Ibrahim currently number around one hundred million and make up more than half of all the Tijanis in the world.
The distinguishing practice of Shaykh
The Kashif al-Ilbas, written early on in the Shaykhs career in 1931-1932, is primarily a guide for the teaching and learning of the experiential knowledge (
Drawing on the concept of the spiritual flood, gnosis for all who desired it, Shaykh Ibrahim demonstrates in the Kashif that no believing man or woman should deprive him or herself of spiritual illumination.
Biography of Author by SayyidʿAlī Cisse
Introduction by Shaykh Ḥasan b.ʿAlī Cisse
Ḥadīth Analysis by Shaykh Tijānī b.ʿAlī Cisse
Translation by Zachary Wright, Muhtar Holland and Abdullahi El‐Okene
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The Kashif al-Ilbas is the magnum opus of twentieth-century West Africa’s greatest Muslim leader, Shaykh al-Islam Ibrahim Abd-Allah Niasse (1900-1975).
Shaykh Ibrahim was a Muslim scholar and sage of the Tijaniyya, a Sufi order which has spread to all corners of the Muslim world since Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani (d. 1815, Fes) established the confraternity in North Africa in the late eighteenth century.
Shaykh Ibrahim had unparalleled success in propagating the Tijaniyya, and those owing their initiation into the order to Shaykh Ibrahim currently number around one hundred million and make up more than half of all the Tijanis in the world.
The distinguishing practice of Shaykh
The Kashif al-Ilbas, written early on in the Shaykhs career in 1931-1932, is primarily a guide for the teaching and learning of the experiential knowledge (
Drawing on the concept of the spiritual flood, gnosis for all who desired it, Shaykh Ibrahim demonstrates in the Kashif that no believing man or woman should deprive him or herself of spiritual illumination.
Biography of Author by SayyidʿAlī Cisse
Introduction by Shaykh Ḥasan b.ʿAlī Cisse
Ḥadīth Analysis by Shaykh Tijānī b.ʿAlī Cisse
Translation by Zachary Wright, Muhtar Holland and Abdullahi El‐Okene
