Ahmad al-Badawi
Aḥmad al-Badawī | |
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Grave of Ahmad al-Badawi in Ahmad al-Badawi Mosque, Tanta, Egypt (2025) | |
| 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 | In some versions of Sufism |
| Major shrine | Mosque of Aḥmad al-Badawī, Tanta, Egypt |
| Feast | A few days every October (mawlid) |
Tradition or genre | Sufi Islam (Jurisprudence: Maliki) |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Aḥmad |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū al-Fityān |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Badawī al-Maqdisī al-Qudsī al-Qurashī |
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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 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, 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". As al-Badawi is perhaps "the most popular of Sufi saints in Egypt", his tomb has remained a "major site of visitation" for Sufis in the region.