al-Duwayhī, Ibrāhīm al-Rashīd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Sedgwick, Mark
Leiden
Brill
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Ibrāhīm al-Rashīd b. Ṣāliḥ al-Dunqulāwī al-Shāʾiqī al-Duwayhī (1813-74) was a Sudanese ʿālim (religious scholar) and Ṣūfī shaykh (master, lit. "elder") and the source of the Rashīdiyya, a group of Ṣūfī ṭuruq (orders, sing. ṭarīqa ) named after him, which spread widely across several regions of the Muslim world, from the 1860s to the First World War. The Rashīdiyya is one of the major groups of ṭuruq within the Aḥmadiyya-Idrīsiyya, itself a widespread group of Ṣūfī ṭuruq founded by the Moroccan mystic Aḥmad b. Idrīs al-