al-Bayyumī, ʿAlī b. Ḥijāzī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Geoffroy, Eric
Leiden
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Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Ḥijāzī b. Muḥammad al-Bayyumī (1108-83/1696-1769) was an Egyptian Ṣūfī, the founder of the Bayyūmiyya ṭarīqa ("path," hence Ṣūfī "order"). Born in the village of Bayyūm (in Lower Egypt), he resided initially in the Khalwatī zāwiya (lodge) of Shaykh Damirdāsh (d. 930/1524) in Cairo (the Khalwatiyya came into being in the eighth/fourteenth century, in Khurāsān, and soon spread throughout the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, and North Africa). At about the age of thirty, however, al-Bayyūmī joined the Ḥalabiyya