The Bayyūmiyya is an independent branch of the Aḥmadiyya (or Badawiyya) ṭarīqa (lit. "path," hence religious "order"). Founded in Cairo by ʿAlī al-Bayyūmī (d. 1183/1769), it is a popular Egyptian order whose principles go back to the teaching of Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawī. While it is known that ShaykhʿAlī al-Bayyūmī joined the Aḥmadiyya through the intermediation ofʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥalabī (d. 1044/1634), founder of the Ḥalabiyya order,private documents belonging to the current successor show that al-Bayyūmī was also affiliated with the Shinnāwiyya (an