Ibrāhīm al-Rashīd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
[Article]
Vikør, Knut S.
Leiden
Brill
(1,187 words)
Ibrāhīm b. Ṣālīḥ al-Duwayḥī (1813-74), known as Ibrāhīm al-Rashīd , was the founder of the Rashīdiyya Ṣūfī order. He was born into a religious family in the Merowe district of Northern Sudan. His father, Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who served as a qāḍī (judge) in Shandi north of Khartoum, met with Muḥammad ʿUthmān al-Mīrghanī (d. 1852), and joined his Khatmiyya ṭarīqa (lit., way, hence Ṣūfī order) when Ibrāhīm was three years old, and the boy was trained in this order. In 1830, at the age of