al-Badawī, al-Sayyid - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine
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Brill
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Al-Sayyid al-Badawī (596-674/1200-76), Egypt's greatest saint, is also one of its historically most obscure. The first reliable biographical entry in which he is mentioned is by ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. al-Mulaqqin (d. 804/1401), whose Ṭabaqāt al-awliyā ("History of the saints") states that he originated from an Arab tribe of al-Shām (Syria) and that an Iraqi shaykh initiated him into the Rifāʿiyya, a Ṣūfī order that developed in lower Iraq around the end of the sixth/twelfth century and traced itself