The Dandarāwiyya is a Ṣūfī order widespread across the Middle East, East Africa, and southeast Asia. The order takes its name from the Egyptian Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Dandarāwī (d. 1911), who, around 1860, met the Ṣūfī teacher Ibrāhīm al-Rashīd (d. 1874) and became his pupil. Al-Rashīd was the youngest pupil of the Moroccan Ṣūfī Aḥmad b. Idrīs (d. 1839), and the order that al-Dandarāwī began to spread is usually known as the Rashīdiyya Idrīsiyya Aḥmadiyya, or simply the Aḥmadiyya; the name "Dandarāwiyya" seems to have been most