Badawiyya

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The Badawiyya ( Arabic البدوية, DMG al-badawīya ; Turkish Bedevilik ), also Ahmadiyya (الأحمدية, DMG al-aḥmadīya ), is an Islamic - mystical Sufi order ( Tariqa ) and was founded in the 13th century by the Egyptian Ahmad al-Badawi (1199–1276).

During the Ottoman Empire , the order spread to Turkey , where it was active, until Kemal Ataturk , the founder of the Turkish Republic, issued a ban on public religious practice in 1926.

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