Name: Saint-Louis
Address: Saint-Louis, West Africa & Sahel

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Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy

Senegalese Tijani scholar and teacher (1925–2017), son of Serigne Babacar Sy and grandson of El Hadj Malick Sy. From 1950 he built a teaching movement among Senegal's educated Muslim youth — the Causerie musulmane instructive, the journal L'Islam éternel and the federation of the dahiras — and he was the spiritual guide of the Dahiratoul Moustarchidina wal Moustarchidaty. He founded the Parti de la Solidarité Sénégalaise (1959), served as ambassador to the United Arab Republic, and became a major industrialist. In his last years the Sy family recognised him as its khalifa; he died at Dakar on 15 March 2017.

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Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy