al-Ḥāmid, Muḥammad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weismann, Itzchak
Leiden
Brill
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Muḥammad al-Ḥāmid (1910-69) was a Muslim religious scholar ( ʿālim ), a Ṣūfī, and the founder of the Muslim Brother movement in Hama, Syria, the city in which he was born and raised. He was a son of Maḥmūd al-Ḥāmid (d. 1916), shaykh of the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī brotherhood in Hama. His mother belonged to the al-Jābī family, one of the city's foremost families of ʿulamā ʾ and men of letters. After he lost both his parents during the First World War, he was raised by his elder