Biography of imam hassan cisse in sudan

Shaykh Hassan Cisse

By Zakariya Wright

Shaykh Hassan Cisse (1945-2008) was the preeminent spokesmen of the Tariqa Tijaniyya in recent times.

Biography of imam hassan cisse in sudan

He was an accomplished Islamic scholar, emerging from a long and vibrant legacy of Islamic learning in West Africa. The grandson and spiritual heir of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse, he was designated by Shaykh Ibrahim as Imam of the Jama’at Nasr al-Ilm (“Community of Helping Knowledge”), the followers of Shaykh Ibrahim who are historically the largest single Muslim movement in twentieth-century West Africa.

Shaykh Hassan was a consummate scholar and spiritual guide.

He received a complete training in the traditional Islamic sciences: the Qur’an and its exegesis (tafsir), Prophetic traditions (hadith) and history (seerah), jurisprudence and its sources (fiqh and usul), literature (adab), poetry (shi’r), grammar (nahw), and Sufism (tasawwuf).

After memorizing the Qur’an at a young age in Mauritania, he was