Imam Cheikh Tidiane b. Ali Cisse holds the Imamate of the Grand Mosque in Medina-Baye, Senegal. As Imam of the spiritual heart of the followers of Shaykh Ibrahim Niass(RA), Imam Cheikh Tidiane Cisse represents some one hundred million Muslims around the world.  He succeeds to the position after a lifetime of personal instruction and companionship with some of the twentieth century’s most eminent scholars of the Tariqa Tijaniyya:  Shaykh Ibrahim Niass (RA) (d.1975), Shaykh Sayyid ‘Ali Cisse (RA) (d.1982) and Shaykh Hassan b. Ali Cisse (d.2008).