Ahmed Tijani ( ar, أحمد تيجاني بن عمر) is a male Muslim given name formed from the elements ''
Ahmed
Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet.
Etymology
The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...
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Tijani
The Tijāniyyah ( ar, الطريقة التجانية, Al-Ṭarīqah al-Tijāniyyah, The Tijānī Path) is a Sufi tariqa (order, path), originating in the Maghreb but now more widespread in West Africa, particularly in Senegal, The Gambia, ...
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Ahmad al-Tijani (1735–1815), Algerian founder of the Tijaniyya Sufi order
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Ahmed Tijani Ahmed
Ahmed Tijani Ahmed (17 December 1941 – 10 June 2006) was a Nigerian politician who was Senator for the Kogi Central constituency in Kogi State from 1999 to 2003 as a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
Career
When Kogi State was cr ...
(1941–2006), Nigerian politician
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Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar
Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar ( ar, أحمد تيجاني بن عمر) is a Ghanaian born American Islamic scholar and Imam.
Education
Tijani was born in Accra, Ghana. His hometown is Asamankese, West Akim Municipal District, Ghana. He specialised in I ...
(born 1950), Ghanaian Islamic scholar and Imam
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Ahmad Tijani Ali Cisse (born 1955), Senegalese leader of the Tijaniyya Sufi order
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Ahmad Tijani
Əhməd Ticani (born 10 November 1987) is a Nigerian football striker who plays for Shusha in the Azerbaijan First Division
The Azerbaijan First Division ( az, Azərbaycan Birinci Divizionu) is the second highest professional division in Azer ...
(born 1987), Nigerian footballer
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Ahmad al-Tijani (born 1943), Tunisian Islamic scholar and Imam
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Arabic masculine given names