CALIPHS WHO SUCCEEDED SIDI AHMED TIJANI
Seyyidina Ahmed Tijani (May God be satisfied with him), before his death, entrusted the responsability of the Tariqa to the Pole (Qutb) Sidi Hajj Ali Tamasini (May God be satisfied with him). He confided also the guardianship of his two heirs, Sidi Sidi Muhammad El Kebir and his brother Muhammad El Habib (May God be satisfied with them both), to Sidi Hajj Ali Tamasini (May ALLAH be pleased with him) because they were still too young.
When Sidi Hajj Ali Tamasini's died, the Caliphate was given back to the Seyyidina Ahmed Tijani's descent : Sidi Muhammad El Habib who died around 8 years after him.
When Sidi Muhammad El Habib died, his son Sidi Ahmed Ammar who was only 3. And soon from his adolescence, he had many difficulties with the French colonizers who didn't hesitate to put him in under a kind of home arrest in Bordeaux (France).
During this period of problems, the control of the Tariqa was temporaly assumed by the Caliph of Tamasine, Sidi Muhammad El 'Ayd and at Sidi Ahmed Ammar's return to Ain Madhi, the mastery of the Tariqa returned definitively to Seïdina Ahmed Tidjani's descendants and the Caliphs who succeeded thereafter are:
- Sidi Bachir Tidjani (May God be satisfied with him): from 1896 to 1910
- Sidi 'Allal Tidjani (May God be satisfied with him): from 1910 to 1919
- Sidi Mohamed El Kebir Tidjani (May God be satisfied with him): from 1919 to 1931
- Sidi Mahmoud Tidjani (May God be satisfied with him): from 1931 to 1934
- Sidi Taïeb Tidjani (May God be satisfied with him): from 1934 to 1973
- Sidi 'Ali Tidjani (May God be satisfied with him): from 1973 to 1990
- Sidi 'Abdeljabbar Tidjani (May God be satisfied with him): from 1991 to 2005
- Sidi El Hadj M'hammed Tidjani(May God be satisfied with him): from 2006 to 2010
- Sidi 'Ali Tijani, better known under the name of Sidi Bel 'Arbi Tijani, since October 2010, may Allah extend his life, he is the current Caliph (the 12th).