This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining the cultural, socio-economic and political backdrop against which Sufism gained prominence, it looks at its influence in both the institutions for religious …
Circulation and networks: the role of Cairo and al-Azhar -- Education : how to guide disciples? -- The Muhammadan path (Tariqa Muhammadiyya) and Sufi renewal -- Prophetic heritage, authority and the intercession of saints. This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman…
This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining the cultural, socio-economic and political backdrop against which Sufism gained prominence, it looks at its influence in both the institutions for religious …
This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining the cultural, socio-economic and political backdrop against which Sufism gained prominence, it looks at its influence in both the institutions for religious …
This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining the cultural, socio-economic and political backdrop against which Sufism gained prominence, it looks at its influence in both the institutions for religious …
Muḥammad Ḥasanayn Makhlūf al-ʿAdawī al-Mālikī (1861–1936) was an Egyptian scholar and Ṣūfī, father of Ḥasanayn Muḥammad Makhlūf (d. 1961), muftī of Egypt from 1946 to 1950. He was born in Banī ʿAdī, a city in the Asyūṭ governorate of Upper Egypt renowned for the number of Azharī…
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…