The Ba'Alawi tariqa (Arabic: طريقة آل باعلوي), also known as the Tariqa Ba Alawiyya is a Sufi order [1] centered in Hadhramawt, Yemen, but now spread across the Indian Ocean rim along with the Hadhrami diaspora. The order is closely tied to the Ba'Alawi sadah family.

Alawites, considered disbelievers by classical Sunni and Shi'ite theologians, faced periods of subjugation or persecution under various Muslim empires such as the Ottomans, Abbasids, Mamluks, and others. The establishment of the French Mandate of Syria in 1920 marked a turning point in Alawite history.

Says the Shaykh Abu Ja'far, the mercy of Allah upon him: Our belief concerning the Alids ('alawiya) is that they are the progeny of the Messenger of Allah, and that devotion to them is obligatory, because it is the requital of his apostleship.

Ahmad al-Alawi (1869 – 14 July 1934), in full Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAlīwa, known as al-ʿAlāwī al-Mustaghānimī (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد بن مصطفى بن عليوة المعروف بالعلاوي المستغانمي), was an Algerian Sufi Sheikh who founded his own Sufi order, called the Alawiyya. [1] Sheikh Ahmad al-Alawi was born in Mostaganem, in 1869.

Mar 16, 2010 · By the time of Sheikh al-Alawi's death in 1934, he had become one of the best known and most celebrated shaykhs of the century and was visited by many. The Alawiyya was one of the first Sufi orders to establish a presence in Europe, notably among Algerians in France and Yemenis in Wales.

Abdullah bin Saleh Samahiji collected the supplications of Hazrat Amirul Mo-mineen Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.) and named the collection: Sahifa Alawiya. Other scholars also compiled their collections of Duas related from Imam Ali (a.s.) but the collection that became most popular was that of Abdullah bin Saleh. It had 160 Duas.

In This Thing Called Love, celebrated Lebanese novelist Alawiya Sobh takes the war between Israel and Hizballah as the backdrop for a heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, the friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with mortality.

Alawiya Sobh is writer, journalist and chief editor of the bestselling women's magazine Al- Hasnaa since 1986. Maryam, Keeper of Stories, published originally in Arabic in 2002 won the Sultan Taboos Prize in 2006.

Apr 25, 2024 · Alawiya Sobh is a Lebanese journalist and novelist born in Beirut in 1955. She has BAs in both Arabic and English literature from the Lebanese National University in Beirut.

Until the beginning of the French Mandate in Syria, the Alawi com-munity was known as Nusayriya or Ansariye by the local population as well as by the Europeans.