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2 unusual facts about Shaykh Hassan Cissé


Shaykh Hassan Cissé

His brother Ahmad Tijani Ali Cisse (born 1955) is current spiritual leader of the Tijaniyya Sufi order.

He is the son of Sidi Ali Cissé and Fatima Zahra Niasse; and grandson of Ibrahim Niass, also spelled "Niasse" (died 1975), who was a Shaykh of the Tijaniyyah Sufi order and head of the largest Muslim community in twentieth-century West Africa and initiator of the largest branch of the Tijaniyyah Sufi order.



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