Ahmad al-Badawi

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Aḥmad al-Badawī (Egyptian Arabic: أحمد البدوى, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈæħmæd elˈbædæwi]), also known as al-Sayyid al-Badawī (السيد البدوى [esˈsæjjed elˈbædæwi]), was a 13th-century Arab Sufi Muslim mystic and spiritual adept, immensely revered in Egypt, who became famous as the founder of the Badawiyyah Sufi order. He was born in Fes, Morocco, into a Bedouin tribe originally from the Syrian Desert. Described as boisterous in his youth, al-Badawī underwent some form of inner conversion around 627 AH, after which he withdrew from ordinary human contact, including marriage, in order to seek God alone. He made pilgrimages to the tombs of several great Sufis, including al-Jīlī and al-Ḥallāj. In 1236 he settled permanently at Tandiṭā (Tanta) in Egypt, where he adopted still more ascetic practices. Al-Badawī acquired an exceptional posthumous reputation, being described as "one of the greatest saints in the Arab world" and perhaps the most popular of the Sufi saints of Egypt. His tomb...

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