ʿAlawiyya (in Ḥaḍramawt) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Alatas, Ismail Fajrie
Leiden
Brill
(2,126 words)
Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya , or Ṭarīqat Sādat Banī ʿAlawī (the way, or order, of the ʿAlawī sayyid s; sayyid , pl. sāda , one who claims descent from the prophet Muḥammad), is a Ṣūfī brotherhood that originated in Ḥaḍramawt , in southern Yemen. First articulated in the seventh/thirteenth century by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Bā ʿAlawī (d. 653/1255), also known as al-faqīḥ al-muqaddam (the paramount jurist) and al-ustādh al-aʿẓam (the greatest master), the ṭarīqa combined two spiritual genealogies: that of the Prophet's family (ahl al-bayt) handed down through