Ahmad al-Badawi

Sidi

Aḥmad al-Badawī
Sidi; Aḥmad al-Badawī
	Wali al-Qutb
Mystic, Jurist
Born	1200 CE (596 AH); Fez, Almohad Caliphate; (present-day Morocco)
Died	1276 CE (674 AH); Tanta, Mamluk Sultanate; (present-day Egypt)
Venerated in	By all those traditional Sunni Muslims who venerate saints
Major shrine	Mosque of Aḥmad al-Badawī, Tanta, Egypt
Feast	A few days every October (mawlid)
Tradition or genre	Sunni Islam ; (Jurisprudence: Shafi'i)

Aḥmad al-Badawī (Arabic: أحمد البدوى IPA: [ˈæħmæd elˈbædæwi]), also known as Al-Sayyid al-Badawī (السيد البدوى, [esˈsæjjed-, elˈsæjjed-]), or as al-Badawī for short, or reverentially as Shaykh al-Badawī by Sunni Muslims who venerate saints,^[3] was a 13th-century Arab^[3] Sufi Muslim mystic who became famous as the founder of the Badawiyyah order of Sufism. Born in Fes, Morocco to a Bedouin tribe originally from the Syrian Desert,^[3]^[4] al-Badawi eventually settled for good in Tanta, Egypt in 1236, whence he developed a posthumous reputation as "One of the greatest saints in the Arab world"^[5]^[3] As al-Badawi is perhaps "the most popular of Muslim saints in Egypt", his tomb has remained a "major site of visitation" for Muslims in the region.^[6]

^ ʿAbd al-Samad al-Miṣrī, al-Jawāhir al-saniyya fī l-karāmāt wa-l-nisba al-Aḥmadiyya, Cairo 1277/1860–1
^ Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawî. Un grand saint de l'Islam égyptien, Cairo 1994
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine. al-Sayyid "al-Badawī, al-Sayyid (search results)". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Check |url= value (help)
^ ʿAbd al-Wahhab b. Aḥmad al-Shaʿrānī, Lawāqih al-anwār fī tabaqāt al-akhyār and al-Tabaqāt al-kubrā (Beirut 1988), 1:183
^ "Hazrat Sayyidina Ahmad al-Badawi", aalequtub
^ Irving Hexham, The Concise Dictionary of Religion (Regend, 1993), p. 14

[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 saint de l'Islam égyptien, Cairo 1994

[EI3-3] Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine. al-Sayyid "al-Badawī, al-Sayyid (search results)". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Check |url= value (help)

[4] ʿAbd al-Wahhab b. 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

[6] Irving Hexham, The Concise Dictionary of Religion (Regend, 1993), p. 14

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