| SidiIbrahim al-Desouki | |
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 Mausoleum of Saint Ibrahim El Desouki | |
| Title | Shaykh al-Islam |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 633 AH, (1255 CE) Desouk, Egypt |
| Died | 676 AH, (1296 CE) Desouk, Egypt |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age, (Later Abbasid Era) |
| Main interest(s) | Sufism |
| Occupation | Imam |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| School | Shafi'i |
| Tariqa | Desouki (founder) |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
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'Ibrahīm Bin ʿAbd-El-ʿAzīz 'Abu al-Magd (Egyptian Arabic: إبراهيم بن عبد العزيز أبو المجد), better known as El Desouki (الدسوقي) (1255 in Desouk, Egypt – 1296), was an Egyptian Imam and the founder of the Desouki Order.
Life
El Desouki was born in Desouk on the Nile delta and lived there his whole life, hence his attribution to it. According to traditions and popular sayings, he is a descendant of Ali ibn Abi Talib from his paternal side through Ali al-Hadi. El Desouki was influenced by the Shadhili Sufi order founded by his uncle Abu al-Hasan Shadhili and was as well close to his contemporary Sufi Ahmad al-Badawi of Tanta. He became Sheikh ul-Islam of Egypt during Baibars' rule.
His feast is celebrated twice a year: the first during April, and the second on October the 2nd.
See also
Sources
- Jalāl al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Karkī, A definition of Wali Sīdī 'Ibrahīm al-Dosūqī, Taj 2006, page 8
- True Knower of God Sīdī 'Ibrahīm al-Dosūqī. Archived 2013-05-29 at the Wayback Machine Municipality of Dessouk. (in Arabic)
- Modarressi, Hossein (1993). Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shi'ite Islam: Abu Ja'Far Ibn Qiba Al-Razi and His Contribution to Imamite Shi'Ite Thought. Darwin Press. ISBN 0878500952. See, for instance, Sha'riini, 1: 181 (the biography of the Sufishaykh, Ibriihim b. Abi 'I-Majd al-Dusuqi [d. 67611277-81, who descends from Ja'far as a twelfth-generation descendant of his, hence a thirteenth generation descendant of Ali-Al Hadi)
- Fauzi Muḥammad Abu Zaid, Sheikh ul-Islam Ibrahīm al-Dosūqī, Life and belief house, Cairo, 2008, p.91.
- About Desouk Centre Archived 2012-11-20 at the Wayback Machine Municipality of Desouk. (in Arabic)
