Ahmad al-Alawi

Ahmad al-Alawi
Ahmad al-Alawi (c. 1920)
Spiritual master
Born1869
Mostaganem, French Algeria
Died1934
Mostaganem
Venerated inIslam
Major shrineTomb of Sheikh Ahmad al-Alawi, Mostaganem, Algeria
InfluencesAli, Muhammad al-Buzidi
Tradition or genre
Darqawa
Major worksDiwan, Mahbadi at-Ta'yid, Dauhat al-Asrar, Munajat

Ahmad al-Alawi (1869 – 14 July 1934), in full Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAlīwa, known as al-ʿAlāwī al-Mustaghānimī (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد بن مصطفى بن عليوة المعروف بالعلاوي المستغانمي), was an Algerian Sufi Sheikh who founded his own Sufi order, called the Alawiyya.

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