Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib b. al-Bashīr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Grandin, Nicole
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Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib b. al-Bashīr b. Mālik b. Muḥammad b. Surūr, al-Jamūʾiya, al-ʿAbbāsī al-Malikī, known as Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib (1155-1239/1742-1824), was a Ṣūfī who introduced into Sudan circa 1178/1764 the Sammāniyya ṭarīqa (Ṣūfī "way"), a branch of the Khalwatiyya, itself a highly ramified and far-reaching Ṣūfī brotherhood founded in late eighth/fourteenth-century Tabriz. He had been initiated and appointed khalīfa (deputy) by the founder of the order himself, the shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Sammān al-Madanī (