Case file · Apparition / miracle
Ibrahim Niass announces the 'flood'
In 1929 the Senegalese Tijani scholar Ibrahim Niass declared that the 'fayda', a flood of divine grace foretold by the order's founder, had come through him.
1929 CE · 14.15, -16.08 · status: account
The account
From Medina Baye in Kaolack, his branch of the Tijaniyya spread across West Africa, especially in northern Nigeria and Ghana, and today counts tens of millions of followers.