Serigne Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy “Al-Makhtoum” Khalif General of the Tijaniyya brotherhood passed away on Wednesday, 15th March, 2017 at the age of 91 at his Fann Residence in Dakar. He was laid to rest in Darou Salam in his native religious town of Tivaoune early on Thursday (02:00am).
The 5th Khalifa of El-Hadji Malick Sy (RTA) (1855-1922) his grandfather in Tivaoune, the late Al-Makhtoum assumed the Khaliphate in 2012 after the demise of Serign Mansour Sy (Borom Daraji) (1925-2012).
Meanwhile, Serign Abdul Aziz Al-Amin, spokesperson of the brotherhood is now the Kaliph General of the Tijanniyya.
Bio
After completing his mastery of Quranic sciences with Serigne Saybatou Fall and Serigne Alioune Guèye, together with his late elder brother Serigne Mansour Sy, Serigne Cheikh Tidiane Sy made a passage in the hands of his paternal uncle El-Hadji Abdul Aziz Sy, who taught him , notably, diction lessons.
Son of Serigne Babacar Sy, the late Serigne Cheikh Tidiane Sy completed the lower and middle cycles of Islamic studies at the age of 14.
At 16, he published his first book: “Les vices des marabouts”. Later, he wrote “The Unknown of the Senegalese Nation: El-Hadji Malick Sy”.
In his thirties, he made his first trip to Paris, where he lived, much later for five years.
He was appointed as Senegalese Ambassador to Egypt in 1960 by former Senegalese President Leopold Sedar Senghore.
His eldest son Serigne Moustapha Sy is the proprietor of the Senegalese privately owned television, Mourchid TV in Dakar.
