Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy — French Wikipedia

French Wikipedia article on Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy 'Al Maktoum'; used for entity facts only. It records his birth at Saint-Louis on 29 December 1925 as a son of Serigne Babacar Sy, his founding of the Causerie musulmane instructive and the journal L'Islam éternel in 1950, his spiritual guidance of the Dahiratoul Moustarchidina, his family's recognition of him as khalifa in his last years, and his death at Dakar on 15 March 2017.