ash-Shaʿrawīyah

…Ṣūfī order known as ash-Shaʿrawīyah and attempted to select the best elements from the diverse and often conflicting world of the Ṣūfīs and the ʿulamāʾ for its operating principles. The order was housed in a well-endowed zāwiyah, a kind of monastery, and had attached to it a school for…