Proliferation and Bifurcation of the Sufi Orders in Twentieth-Century Egypt

by Frederick De Jong

This study covers a period of some seventy-five years, from the abolition of right of qadam (priority) in 1905 until the adoption of the Law Concerning the Regulations for the Sufi Orders of 1976 by the Egyptian Parliament. During this period, regulations for the Sufi orders were contested and remained in limbo when amendments proposed by the shaykhs of the orders continued to be rejected by the mufti of Egypt.

The abolition of right...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004706461
• ISBN13: 9789004706460
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 320 Pages