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'''Muhammad al-Tijani al-Samawi''' ({{lang-ar|محمد التيجاني السماوي|translit=Muḥammad al-Tījānī al-Samāwī}}; born 2 February 1943) is a Tunisian Islamic scholar, academic, and [[theologian]]. He converted from [[Sunni Islam]] to [[Twelver Shi'ism|Twelver ShiaismShi'a]].
==Personal life==
Muhammad alAl-Tijani was born on 2 February 1943 in Gafsa,a RegencyTunisian of[[Sunni Tunis.Islam|Sunni TheMuslim]] family wereof the [[Maliki school|Malikis]]. whoPreviously, belongedhis family added “al-Tijani” to their name after adopting the [[Tijaniyyah|Tijani sufi order]] of [[Ahmad al-Tijani]]. He was eighteen years of age when the [[Les Scouts Tunisiens]] agreed to send him as one of six Tunisian representatives to the first conference for Islamic and Arab scouts which took place in [[Mecca]]. He used the opportunity to perform the [[Hajj]]. He stayed twenty five days in [[Saudi Arabia]], during which he met many prominent Salafi scholars, listened to their lectures and became heavily influenced by the [[Salafi movement]].
Upon returning to Tunisia, al-Tijani started actively promoting and spreading Salafism during the religious classes and sermons that he gave, including in the [[Great Mosque of Kairouan]]. He then traveled to Egypt’s [[al-Azhar University]]. On the way back to Tunisia, al-Tijani met a ShiaShi'i Iraqi lecturer from the [[University of Baghdad]] named Mun'im. He came to Cairo to submit his Ph.D. thesis at al-Azhar University and Mun'im invited him to Iraq. Al-Tijani spent several weeks with Mun'im; visited [[Baghdad]] and [[Najaf]], and met with several leading Twelver ShiiShi'i scholars, including [[Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei]], [[Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr]], and [[Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i]], who taught him about Shi'a Islam. After long debates with the ShiaShi'i scholars, he became a ShiaShi'a Muslim.<ref>Note: Most of this information is from Al-Tijani's own work, available in the English translation of ''Then I Was Guided''. See [http://www.al-islam.org/guided/6.html al-Islam.org]</ref>
==Works== <!-- Anchor for redirects: [The Shi'a: The Real Followers of the Sunnah], [Then I was Guided], [Ask Those Who Know], [To be with the truthful]. -->
