al-Dardīr, Aḥmad, and Dardīriyya - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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McGregor, Richard J.
Leiden
Brill
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Aḥmad al-Dardīr , Abū al-Barakāt Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abī Ḥāmid al-ʿAdawī al-Mālikī al-Azharī al-Khalwatī (d. Cairo 1201/1786) was an Egyptian jurist and mystic. Born in the village of Banī ʿAdī, near al-Manfalūṭ, in the southern Egyptian province of Asyūṭ, al-Dardīr went, as a young man, to Cairo, where he entered al-Azhar University, the world's chief centre of Sunnī learning. Here he studied law and eventually acceded to the position of shaykh of the Mālikī rite. Al-Dardīr