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ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Qināʾī (d. 592/1196), a sayyid (descendant of the prophet Muḥammad) from northern Morocco, was one of the spiritual teachers who settled in Ayyūbid Egypt and helped firmly re-establish Sunnism and Ṣūfism in that country. According to al-Udfuwī (d. 748/1347), the author of the renowned and usually well-informed biographical dictionary of Egyptians entitled Ṭāliʿ al-saʿīd al-jāmiʿ asmāʾ nujabāʾ al-Ṣaʿīd (The happy ancestor bringing together the names of the important persons of Upper Egypt), Abd al-Raḥīm, although born in
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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