Summary
The Fayḍiyya is an Egyptian Ṣūfī order (Ar., ṭarīqa , lit. way) founded in 1920 by Maḥmūd Abū l-Fayḍ al-Minūfī al-Ḥusaynī (d. 1972). Abū l-Fayḍ mentioned the spiritual genealogy (silsila) of his order, a branch of the Shādhiliyya, in a short autobiography published at the end of his book Jamharat al-awliyāʾ wa-aʿlām ahl al-taṣawwuf (“Assembly of saints and grand masters of Ṣūfism”; Cairo 1967, 269–70) (the Shādhiliyya, founded by the Moroccan Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (d. 656/1258), is well established in
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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