Badawiyya Sufi order

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The Badawiyya Sufi order is an Islamic mystical brotherhood centered on the veneration and teachings of the 13th-century Egyptian saint Ahmad al-Badawi, whose shrine in Tanta remains a major site of pilgrimage.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic mystical brotherhood
Sufi order
associatedConcept baraka of Ahmad al-Badawi
associatedRegion Nile Delta NERFINISHED
associatedWith Egyptian popular religion
associatedWithCity Tanta NERFINISHED
category Islamic mysticism
Sufism in Egypt
Sunni Sufi orders
centuryOfOrigin 13th century
coreFigure Ahmad al-Badawi NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Egypt
denominationWithin Sunni Islam NERFINISHED
devotionalFocus intercession of saints
love of the Prophet Muhammad
founder Ahmad al-Badawi NERFINISHED
geographicSpread Egypt NERFINISHED
Levant NERFINISHED
North Africa NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeTransliteration Badawiyya NERFINISHED
Badawiyyah NERFINISHED
hasAnnualEvent mawlid of Ahmad al-Badawi in Tanta
hasCenter Tanta NERFINISHED
hasDisciples followers of Ahmad al-Badawi
hasKeyInstitution Mosque and shrine of Ahmad al-Badawi NERFINISHED
hasLanguageOfDevotion Arabic
hasPilgrimageSeason month of the mawlid of Ahmad al-Badawi
hasRitual collective dhikr gatherings
distribution of food to pilgrims
processions during the mawlid of Ahmad al-Badawi
hasShrineAt Tanta NERFINISHED
hasSpiritualGoal attainment of closeness to God through the path of Ahmad al-Badawi
hasTitleForFounder Sayyid al-Badawi NERFINISHED
al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawi NERFINISHED
al-Sayyid al-Badawi NERFINISHED
historicalImportance one of the major Sufi orders in medieval Egypt
influencedBy Sunni Sufism NERFINISHED
mainPractices dhikr
pilgrimage to the shrine of Ahmad al-Badawi
veneration of saints
majorPilgrimageSite Shrine of Ahmad al-Badawi in Tanta NERFINISHED
namedAfter Ahmad al-Badawi NERFINISHED
placeOfOrigin Egypt NERFINISHED
religion Islam
spiritualLineage Ahmad al-Badawi NERFINISHED
typeOfPilgrimage popular saint pilgrimage
usesHonorificForFounder saint
wali
venerationFocus Ahmad al-Badawi NERFINISHED

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Mosque of Ahmad al-Badawi associatedWith Badawiyya Sufi order