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  Egypt | Travel to Egypt and Israel
Tanta is a city of Egypt, capital of the Al Gharbiyah governorate in the Nile Delta and at an estimated 335,000 inhabitants, the largest city in the Delta.
It is also noted as the residence and burial site of Ahmad al-Badawi, a 13-century Sufi who founded the Badawiyyah tarika.
A small Egyptian village near the northern tip of the Gulf of Eilat, Taba is the location of Egypt’s busiest border crossing with neighboring Israel.
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The Badawiyyah was founded in the thirteenth century in Egypt by Ahmad al-Badawi (1199-1276).
Educated Muslims and leading scholars tend to dismiss the festival as an example of popular superstition.
The Badawiyyah wear a red patched robe (known as a khirka).
philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/islam/sufi/badaw.html   (329 words)

  
 General Essay on Sufism
The presence of Rifa'iyyah inspired the founding of other orders.
In the 13th century Badawiyyah was founded in Egypt by Ahmad al-Badawi (1199-1276), who acquired a reputation for mysticism and the performance of miracles.
This order continues today and thousands of visitors attend its annual festival in Tanta, Egypt.
philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/islam/sufi/geness.html   (1520 words)

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