Abstract
The concept of taḥqīq - realization or actualization - emerges as a central preoccupation in the Arabic textual tradition and lived learning practices of North and West Africa from the eighteenth century to the present. This discussion considers the primary sources of one of the most widespread Muslim communities in Africa, that of the Tijaniyya Sufi order, to explore conceptions of knowledge. The core argument is that knowledge acquisition was conceived as a transformative process that meant to actualize the full potential of the human condition. The late Shaykh Ḥasan Cissé (d. 2008, Senegal) thus explained in summary of the earlier opinion of Abū Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (d. 1258, Egypt), “It is not important to know God’s secret, greatest name. What is important is for you to become the greatest name.”
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