Tidjani
The Tidjania The founder of the Tidjana Sidi Ahmed Al Tidjani, born in Algeria in 1737 and died in Fez in 1815. At Fouta-Toro the expansion of the confraternity is due to El Hadj Omar Tall (1794-1864), returning from the Mecca with the quality of Calife of Tidjanes for the Sudan. In the wolof country, the credit for the spreading of the Order is given to El Hadj Malick Sy, born in 1855 near to Dagana. In 1902, he installs definement in Tivaouane which became under his influence a education center for islamic culture. When he died in 1922, his son Ababacar Sy became the first Calife ; Mansour Sy, his brother, commented suicide but died four days later. Serigne Mansour Sy is since 1997 (date that Abdoul Aziz Sy died) the actual Calife.
The Gamou of Tivaouane gathers each year many followers. The "house" of Tivaouane is not the only confraternity in Senegal. Their is one in Kaolack which has as it founder Abdoulaye Niasse, there is also one in Medina-Gounass (to the east of the Niokolo Koba park) created by Mamadou Saidou Ba and , near Thies, the Thienaba which the initiator was the disciple of a famous marabout of Fouta, Amadou Sekhou.
The Tidjania attach a large importance to the cultural aspects and education. It is in favor of the individual adhesion of the disciple.
The Mouridia The Touba MosqueeThe confraternity Mouride was founded by Amadou Bamba Mbacke (1853-1927), born in Mbacke-Baol, son and grandson of a famous marabout The colonial authorities exile to Gabon (1895-1902) and later to Mauritania (1903-1907) ; he was later but under house arrest in Tieyene in the Djolof region, before he was authorized to establish in Diourbel in 1912 where he died. In Touba (where the mosque is the largest in West Africa) each year is celebrated the Magal, in commemoration of the exile of Amadou Bamba. The eldest son, Mouhamadou Moustapha was the first calife after came Falilou, Abdoul Ahad, Abdou Khadre and Serigne Saliou Mback�, the actual calife. The mouridisme is greatly remarked by its African nature (see Senegalese). The Mouride ( the "mourit", inspired) itself debtor to its marabout ; the importance accorded to working has permitted, by the use of the Talibes, the cultivation of a very wide territory.