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{{Short description|Tunisian Shia Scholar}}
{{For|Sidi Al-Tijani, the North African Sufi saint|Ahmad al-Tijani}}{{About|3=Mohammad Tijani (disambiguation)}}{{Infobox religious biography
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| religion region = Tunisian scholar[[Islam]]
| region = [[North Africa]]
| image = File:Muhammad al-Tijani al samawi.jpg▼
| image caption = File:Muhammad al-Tijani al samawi.jpg
| era name = MuhammadModern al-Tijaniera
▲| name image = File:Muhammad al-Tijani al samawi.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|02|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Gafsa]], [[French protectorate of Tunisia]]
| school_tradition = [[Shi'a]] [[Twelver]] ▼
| death_date =
| influences = Grand Ayatollah Sayyid [[Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr]]
| death_place influenced =
| denomination = [[Shia Islam|Shia]]
| notable_ideas =
▲| school_tradition = [[Usuli|Usuli Twelver Shi'a]] [[Twelver]]
| influences = [[Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr]], [[Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei]], [[Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i]]
| influenced =
| native_name = محمد التيجاني
| honorific prefix = [[Sayyid]]
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'''Muhammad al-Tijani al-Samawi''' ({{lang-ar|'''محمد التيجاني|translit=Muḥammad السماوي'''al-Tījānī}}),(; born 2 February 1943) is a Tunisian [[List of Islamic scholars|Shia scholar]], academic, and [[theologian]]. He converted from [[Sunni Islam]] to [[Twelver Shi'ism|Twelver Shi'a]].
 
==Personal life==
Al-Tijani was born in a Tunisian [[Sunni Islam|Sunni Muslim]] family of the [[Maliki school]]. Previously, his 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]].
Al-Tijani was born in Tunisian Muslim family. As a student, he made a [[Hajj|pilgrimage]] to [[Mecca]]. While studying at the Saudi hawza, he was influenced by Saudi teachings, [[Islam]] - which holds, among many, that the Shi'ites aren't Muslims because they worship dead humans instead of [[Allah]]
 
Upon returning to Tunisia, Alal-Tijani wasstarted influencedactively bypromoting anand Iraqispreading ShiaSalafism during the religious classes and sermons that he studentgave, 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 Shi'i Iraqi lecturer from the [[University of Baghdad]] named Mun'im,. whoHe came to Cairo to submit his Ph.D. thesis at al-Azhar University and Mun'im invited him to Iraq. Al-SamawiTijani spent several weeks with Mun'im; visited [[Baghdad]] and [[Najaf]], and met with several leading Twelver Shi'ai scholars., These included:including [[GrandAbu Ayatollahal-Qasim Abulal-Qassim Khoei]] (al-Khu'i), Sayyid [[Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr]] ([[Grand Ayatollah]] to-be), and [[AllamehMuhammad Husayn TabatabaeiTabataba'i]], who taught him about ShiaShi'a Islam. After long debates with the Shi'i scholars, he became a Shi'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> After long debates with the Shia scholars, he became a shia muslim, following the Jafari Madhab.
 
==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]. -->
Al-Tijani's books are banned in some countries, such as [[Saudi Arabia]] and [[Malaysia]]. He has written six books:
* ''[[https://www.al-islam.org/then-i-was-guided-muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi Then I Was Guided]]''
* ''[https://www.al-islam.org/ask-those-who-know-muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi Ask Those Who Know]''
* ''Ask Those Who Know''<ref>''Ask Those Who Know''; {{ISBN|964-438-314-1}}</ref>
* ''[https://www.al-islam.org/be-with-truthful-muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi To Be with the Truthful]''
* ''[https://www.al-islam.org/shiah-are-real-ahlul-sunnah-muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi The Shi'ah are (the real) Ahl alAhlul-Sunnah]''
* ''[https://www.al-islam.org/all-solutions-are-with-prophet-s-progeny-muhammad-al-tijani All Solutions Are with the Prophet's Progeny]''
* ''Fa Siru Fi al-Ard''
* ''[https://www.al-islam.org/black-thursday-muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi Black Thursday]''
* ''All Solutions Are with the Prophet's Progeny''
 
Three of his books are also available in Urdu titled as:
* ''Phir Mein Hidayat Pa Gia''; (another title of this book is "Tajalli")
* ''Hukm-may-Azan''
* ''Ho Jao Sachchon Ke Saath''
* ''Ehley Bait a.s Hallal Mushkilaat''
 
===''Then I Was Guided''===
''Then I Was Guided'' (Arabic ''Thumma Htadayt'') is Al-Tijani's first book—in a series of books—which he wrote for a Sunni audience. In this series, he asks the Sunnis the same questions he wrestled with during his studies of Shi'a literature. The author finds the Shi'i argument for their account of history to be valid while citing evidence which he claimed proved the Sunni view cannot withstand scrutiny.
 
===''Ask Those Who Know''===
''Ask Those Who Know''<ref>Note: The title implies that Islam should be learned from [[Muhammad]]'s chosen family, the [[Ahl al-Bayt]], and not from his companions, the [[Sahaba]].</ref> is the second book in the series.
 
===''To Be with the Truthful''===
The name of the book, ''To Be with the Truthful'', is derived from a Quranic verse: "O you who believe, fear Allah and be with the Truthful" ({{Quran-usc|9|119}}).<ref>Surat Al-Tawba, Ayah 119</ref> The work addresses the revelation of the [[Qur'an]]ic verse, {{Quran-usc|5|67}}. Revealed during the [[Farewell Pilgrimage]] on [[Mount Arafat]], it is regarded as authentic in [[Sahih Bukhari]]. The book questions why Muslims do not celebrate that day as their greatest festival.<ref>[http://al-islam.org/truthful/1.htm ''With the Truthful'']</ref> The book also discusses the events of [[Ghadir Khumm]] and the [[Saqifah|meeting at Saqifah]]<ref>[http://al-islam.org/truthful/2.htm ''With The Truthful'']</ref>
 
===''The Shi'a: The Real Followers of the Sunnah''===
The title of ''The Shi'a: The Real Followers of the Sunnah'' (or ''Shiah Hum Ahl Al-Sunnah'') is more accurately translated as "The [[Shi'a]]h are the real [[Sunni|Ahl al-Sunnah]]".<ref>Published by Message of Peace, Inc.; Pyame Aman</ref>
 
==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://www.al-islam.org/person/muhammad-al-tijani-al-samawi A series of books by Muhammad al-Tijani with English translations]
* [http://al-islam.org/short/Tijani.htm Striving for Right Guidance] &mdash; A speech delivered by Dr. Muhammad al-Tijani al-Samawi
 
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