Tarīqa ʿAlawīya

The Tarīqa ʿAlawīya ( Arabic الطريقة العلوية, DMG aṭ-ṭarīqa al-ʿAlawīya ) or Ba'alawi is a Sufi order founded by al-Faqīh Muqaddam As-Saiyid Muhammad ibn ʿAlī (1178-1255) , whose center is in Hadramaut , Yemen , but which now covers the entire coastal zone of the Indian Ocean , along with the Hadramitic Diaspora. The order is closely related to the family of the Bā ʿAlawī Sāda .

Teaching and eminent representatives

The order emphasizes the transmission of the teaching about a chain of sheikhs who come from the descendants of the prophet Mohammed . It follows the tradition of the Shafi'ite school of law of the Sunnis .

Important representatives of the order in East Africa were Ahmad ibn Sumait and ʿAbdallāh Bā Kathīr al-Kindī (1861–1925). Muhammad Salih Hendricks (1871-1945) from Swellendam introduced the order after a stay in Mecca at the beginning of the 20th century in Cape Town , where he founded the Azzawiya Mosque.

Habib Ali al-Jifri (born 1971 in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia ), the founder and director of the Tabah Foundation (2005), United Arab Emirates , is also a supporter of the order.

literature

Patrick Desplat: Islamic scholars between text and practice - processes of change in Islam using the example of Kenya / East Africa. 2003, online at ifeas.uni-mainz.de (“The Brotherhood of Alawiyya” etc.)
Anne K. Bang: Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860–1925 , Routledge, London, 2003. ( here in the Google book search)
Walter Dostal : "Saints of Hadramawt". In Walter Dostal and Wolfgang Kraus (editors): Shattering Tradition: Custom, Law and the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean , 233-253. New York: IB Tauris, 2005 ( here in the Google book search)
Ulrike Freitag : Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut: Reforming the Homeland . 2003 ( excerpt from Google book search)
Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk, Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim: The Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia . 2009 ( excerpt from Google book search)
Yearbook of the Historical College 2000 , edited by Lothar Gall, Arnold Esch, Klaus Hildebrand. 2001 ( excerpt from Google book search)
Amira Kotb: 'La Tariqa Ba'Alawiyya et le développement d'un réseau soufi transnational', MA thesis, Université Paul Cézanne, 2004
Umar Ibrahim: Thariqah 'alawiyyah: napak tilas dan studi kritis atas sosok dan pemikiran Allamah Sayyid' Abdullah Al-Haddad, tokoh Sufi abad ke-17 . Bandung: Mizan 2001
David Buchman, "The Underground Friends of God and Their Adversaries: A Case Study and Survey of Sufism in Contemporary Yemen," Yemen Update , vol. 39 (1997), pp. 21-24
J. Spencer Trimingham: The Sufi Orders in Islam . 1971

Web links and videos

supporting documents

↑ See Anne K. Bang: Islamic Sufi Networks in the Wester Indian Ocean (c. 1880-1940). Ripples of Reform. Brill, Leiden-Bosten, 2014. pp. 93-101.

Tarīqa ʿAlawīya (alternative names of the lemma)
Ba'Alawi tariqa; Tariqa Alawiyya; Allawiyya; Ba'Alawi

[1] See Anne K. Bang: Islamic Sufi Networks in the Wester Indian Ocean (c. 1880-1940). Ripples of Reform. Brill, Leiden-Bosten, 2014. pp. 93-101.