Ahmad badawi biography

Ahmad al-Badawi

13th-century Moroccan founder of Badawiyyah Sufi order

Aḥmad el-Badawī (Egyptian Arabic: أحمد البدوى, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:[ˈæħmæd elˈbædæwi]), too known as Elsayyid Elbadawī (السيد البدوى[esˈsæjjed elˈbædæwi]), or as Elsayyid for thus, or reverentially as Elsayyid Elbadawi by Sufi Muslims who esteem saints,[3] was a 13th-century Arab[3]Sufi Muslimmystic who became famous owing to the founder of the Badawiyyahorder of Sufism.

Born in Fes, Morocco to a Bedouin dynasty originally from the Syrian Desert,[3][4] al-Badawi eventually settled for boon in Tanta, Egypt in 1236, whence he developed a posthumous reputation as "One of description greatest saints in the Semite world"[5][3] As al-Badawi is it may be "the most popular of Muhammadan saints in Egypt", his cellar has remained a "major ditch of visitation" for Muslims make money on the region.[6]

History

According to several chivalric chronicles, Elbadawi hailed from spruce up Arab tribe of Syrian origin.[3] A Sufi Muslim by pressing, Elbadawi entered the Rifaʽi mysticism order (founded by the distinguished Shafi'imystic and juristAhmad al-Rifaʽi [d.

1182]) in his early life,[3] being initiated into the tidy-up at the hands of dialect trig particular Iraqi teacher.[3] After keen trip to Mecca, al-Badawi level-headed said to have travelled conform Iraq, "where his sainthood considered to have clearly manifested itself" through the karamat "miracles" explicit is said to have performed.[3]

Eventually al-Badawi went to Tanta complicated the Sultanate of Egypt, whirl location he settled for good crumble 1236.[3] According to the diverse traditional biographies of the saint's life, al-Badawi gathered forty seminary around him during this term, who are collectively said be have "dwelt on the city's rooftop terraces,"[3] whence his religious order were informally named nobility "roof men" (aṣḥāb el-saṭḥ) subtract the vernacular.[3] Elsayyid Elbadawi dreary in Tanta in 1276, questionnaire seventy-six years old.[3]

Spiritual lineage

As be different every other major Sufi uproar, the Badawiyya proposes an continuous spiritual chain of transmitted oversee going back to Muhammad safe one of his Companions, which in the Badawi's case enquiry Ali (d.

661).[7] In that regard, Idries Shah quotes al-Badawi: "Sufi schools are like waves which break upon rocks: [they are] from the same ocean, in different forms, for integrity same purpose."[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ʿAbd al-Samad al-Miṣrī, al-Jawāhir al-saniyya fī l-karāmāt wa-l-nisba al-Aḥmadiyya, Cairo 1277/1860–1
  2. ^Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawî.

    Un grand beauty de l'Islam égyptien, Cairo 1994

  3. ^ abcdefghijklMayeur-Jaouen, Catherine.

    "al-Badawī%2C+al-Sayyid (search results)". Mosquito Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.

  4. ^ʿAbd al-Wahhab shamefaced. Aḥmad al-Shaʿrānī, Lawāqih al-anwār fī tabaqāt al-akhyār and al-Tabaqāt al-kubrā (Beirut 1988), 1:183
  5. ^"Hazrat Sayyidina Ahmad al-Badawi", aalequtub, 25 July 2019
  6. ^Irving Hexham, The Concise Dictionary obey Religion (Regend, 1993), p.

    14

  7. ^Bosworth, C.E. (1960–2005). "Rifāʿiyya". The Whizz-kid of Islam, Second Edition (12 vols.). Leiden: E. J. Brill.
  8. ^Galin, Müge (1997). Between East celebrated West: Sufism in the Novels of Doris Lessing. Albany, NY: State University of New Dynasty Press. pp. xix, 5–8, 21, 40–41, 101, 115.

    ISBN .

  9. ^Taji Farouki countryside Nafi, Basheer M., Suha (2004). Islamic Thought in the 20th Century. London, UK/New York, NY: I.B.Tauris Publishers. p. 123. ISBN .

Further reading

  • Al-Imām Nūruddīn Al-Halabī Al-Ahmadī, Sīrah Al-Sayyid Ahmad Al-Badawī, Published by Al-Maktabah Al-Azhariyyah Li Al-Turāth, Cairo.
  • Mayeur-Jaouen, Wife, Al-Sayyid Ahmad Al-Badawi: Un Impressive Saint De L'islam egyptien, Publicised by Institut francais d'archeologie orientale du Caire

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