Skiredj Library of Tijani Studies
This article offers a documented response to a hostile account circulated about Sīdī Aḥmad al-Tijānī, especially regarding the story of his imprisonment in Tlemcen and the question of seeing the Prophet while awake.
The professor returns to the cited source, checks its context, and evaluates the reliability of its claims. He does not rely on devotional indignation alone, but mobilizes books, manuscript notes, historical notices, and source criticism in order to refute the allegation and expose its weaknesses.
It is a clear example of the professor’s method of defending the path through evidence, context, and mastery of the textual tradition.