Hujjat al-Islam wa-l-Muslimin Shaykh Ahmad Tijan Sila (d. 2021) was a Shiite clergy and preacher in Sierra Leone, who devoted his blessed life to the promotion of the teachings of the school of Ahl al-Bayt (a) in that country.
For a while, he was the cultural attaché and ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Sierra Leone. He devoted his life to the introduction of the Islamic Republic of Iran and promotion of the thoughts of its founder Imam Khomeini in that part of Africa.
This Shiite preacher was a member of the General Assembly of Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly and an official representative of this international institute in Sierra Leone. He believed in the proximity between Islamic denominations and was also a member of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought.
المجمع العالمي لأهل البيت عليهم السلام، منظمة غير حكومية وعالمية شيعية تعنى بنشر معارف أهل البيت عليهم السلام وترسيخ الوحدة الإسلامية والعمل على اكتشاف وتنظيم أتباع العترة الطاهرة (ع) وتعليمهم ودعمهم.
أنشئت المنظمة علي يد نخبة من الشيعة ويشرف عليها الولي الفقيه والمرجعية الشيعية العليا.
قد قامت المنظمة منذ تأسيسها بدور إيجابي في المستوي العالمي في ترسيخ أسس الوحدة بين مختلف المذاهب الإسلامية.