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About
Shaykh Muhammad al-Mahi Ali Cisse, hafidhahullah, known to his students and disciples as Shaykh Mahy, is a contemporary scholar and an accomplished Shaykh of the Tijani Order. He resides in Madina Baye, Kaolack, Senegal, and has students across the world. At the age of twelve, he completed memorization of the Qur'an under the supervision of Mauritanian scholar Abdullah Ould Rabbani. He then studied extensively in the Majalis al-Ilm (scholarly assemblies) under his father, grounding himself in the traditional Islamic sciences. He later traveled to Egypt and enrolled at al-Azhar University, where he lived for ten years and graduated in 1996 with honors in Arabic Language and Islamic Studies. He is currently the Director of Studies at the African American Islamic Institute. He is the author of works on the Isra' and Mi'raj, including The Nocturnal Journey and Heavenly Ascension and The Isra' and Mi'raj: The Night Journey and Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

