Al-Fāsiyya (called also al-Raḥmāniyya or al-Makkiyya) is a nineteenth-century offshoot of the Shādhiliyya Ṣūfī brotherhood (the Shādhiliyya, founded by the Moroccan Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī, d. 656/1258, is well established in North Africa and the Middle East). The Fāsiyya was founded in 1850 in Mecca by the Moroccan shaykh Muhammad b. Muḥammad b. Masʿūd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fāsī (d. 1872 or 1878), a deputy of the Shādhilī-Darqāwī shaykh Muḥammad b. Ḥamza al-Madanī (d. 1846) and perhaps also a disciple of