Death threats against Mahfouz followed, including one from the " blind sheikh ," Egyptian theologian Omar Abdul-Rahman.

He also travelled in Morocco disguised as a Turkish sheikh, prospected for gold in Spain, befriended Buffalo Bill in Texas, and taught fencing in Mexico City, having travelled there by wagon train from San Antonio de Bexar with his young bride sic " Gabrielle Chidiock de la Balmondiere " a supposed half French half Chilean poet.

Sufis pass esoteric knowledge and baraka from the master sheikh to the aspirant through the passing of the khirqa.

Khirqa-yi irada is characterized by the passing of baraka to the aspirant from the singular sheikh to which he has sworn.

Khirqa-yi tabarruk, also known as the " frock of blessing ", is characterized by the passing of baraka to the worthy aspirant from any sheikh that he has encountered.

His grandfather had been a leading sheikh of the Qadari order and moved to Jableh from Iraq.

In Sufism, as in any serious Islamic discipline such as jurisprudence fiqh, Quranic recital tajwid, and hadith, a disciple must have a master or ‘ sheikh ’ from whom to take the knowledge, one who has himself taken it from a master, and so on, in a continuous chain of masters back to Muhammad.

In Sufi tradition, this means not only that the present sheikh has met and taken the way from a master, but that the master during his life ­ time has explicitly and verifiably invested the disciple — whether in writing or in front of a number of witnesses — to teach the spiritual path as a fully authorized master ( murshid ma ’ dhun ) to succeeding generations of disciples.

The leader of a dissevered path may claim to be a sheikh on the basis of an authorization given by a master in private or other unverifi ­ able circumstance, or by a figure already passed from this world, such as one of the righteous person or Muhammad, or in a dream, or so on.

He imagines the sheikh's image as though on his right shoulder, then pictures a line from the right shoulder to his heart that acts as a passage whereby the spirit of the sheikh can take possession of that organ.

In fact, the more connected the murid is to the sheikh the more the emanations from his inner being increase and the sooner he is able to attain his goal.

* yet other loanwords apart from the proper names, e. g., abseil, dreidel, kaleidoscope, stein, leitmotiv ( German ), reveille, nonpareil, peignoir ( French ), geisha ( Japanese ), sheikh ( Arabic )

His treatment involved verses from the Qur ' an read to him by a sheikh.

He is the grandson of Sayyid Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, founder of the Umma party, and great-grandson of Mohamed Ahmed Al-Mahdi, the Sudanese sufi sheikh of the Samaniyya order and self-proclaimed Mahdi who led the Mahdist War to liberate Sudan from its British occupiers.

According to the dyula clerical tradition, a student received instruction under a single sheikh for a duration varying from five to thirty years, and earned his living as a part-time farmer working his teacher's lands.

However, the current Muslim tradition in the country dates from the arrival of Sheikh Abdurahman Matebe Shah, a Malay sheikh from Sumatra, in 1668.

The sheikh used his exile to consolidate the teaching of Islam among slaves in the Cape, many of whom came from Muslim backgrounds in Malaysia and Bengal.

It is directed by the sheikh of the tariqa or one of his representatives ; monitoring the intensity, depth and duration of the phases of the haḍra, the sheikh aims to draw the circle into deep awareness of God and away from the participants own individuatedness.

The Sufi sheikh, Chelebi Khalifa, moved the headquarters of the Khalwati order from Amasya to Istanbul.

He is mentioned in Osama bin Laden's fatwa as a sheikh unjustly arrested allegedly " by orders from the USA.

Stability returned with the rule of Daher el-Omar, a powerful Bedouin sheikh who ruled over much of the Galilee and who authorized the Franciscans to build a church in 1730.

In most cases the sheikh nominates his khalīfa or " successor " during his lifetime, who will take over the order.

A sheikh who is wise is called ḥakīm adjective ( wise ), ḥākim noun ( governor ), yaḥkum verb ( govern ) ; and can govern.

A house ( 4407 W St. NW, Washington, D. C .), along with a yacht in Florida and hotel rooms in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, were used to set up meetings between various public officials and a mysterious Arab sheikh named " Kambir Abdul Rahman " who wanted:

The same violent accusation was launched in Jaffa against sheikh Muzaffir, an otherwise radical Islamic preacher, who gave a sermon calling for calm on the same day.

A major Naqshbandi takiya was constructed in 1851 by Abbas I, who did this as a favor to Naqshbandi sheikh Ahmad Ashiq.

The red line, as it is commonly referred to, demarcated the region in which the sheikh was to have “ complete administrative autonomy .” This region was formed by “ a semicircle with the town of Kuwayt in the center, the Khawr al-Zubayr at the northern extremity and al-Qurrayin at the southern extremity ( Article 5 ).” This also included the surrounding islands of Warba and Bubiyan, which were major bargaining points for the British who viewed the Ottoman military posts on the islands as a threat.

One of his main rivals, the sheikh Abū l-Hudā, called him Mutaʾafghin (" the one who claims to be Afghan ") and tried to expose his Shi ' a roots.

Two days later, leaving his bride behind, he started to cross the Sahara, accompanied by a sheikh who was subsequently accused of planning his murder.

The story line follows a religious sheikh on his way to Mecca who meets a very beautiful Georgian lady.

Kuby, who had represented Rahman earlier, disagreed with Stewart's characterization, stating, " I love Lynne, but no one in the world could fairly posit the sheikh as a progressive or liberal on any issue.

The genizah fragment says that the incident with the wasp occurred in the presence of the calif Omar, before whom Bostanai as a youth of sixteen had brought a dispute with a sheikh, who filled his office during the exilarch's minority, and then refused to give it up.

Almost all of the sheikhs who sat at the post of grand sheikh of this order are buried at the Tekke, including another noted Sheikh of this order, Merkez Efendi ( d. 1552 ) in Yenikapı.

Qazi Sahib is descendant of great Seljoki Sheikh Hazrat Akhun Adeen / Adyan, who was a teacher of Hazrat kakaka sahib and contemporary of khushal Khan Khattak, the shrine of sheikh Akhund Adyan is at Akora khattak, the descendants of sheikh Akhund Adyan seljoki are titled as Qazi or Qazyan and mostly are living at ziarat kaka sahib.

Formerly several hundred thousand repetitions were required, and obligatory for those who hold the office of sheikh.

When asked about his childhood, the sheikh said: “ my father died when I was three years old, and I only had my mother who took care of me and educated me encouraging me to learn more about Shari ' ah ; she also died when I was twenty six .” By the time he was thirteen he had begun working, selling clothing with his brother in a market.

The longest living group of takiya based Naqshbandis lived in the takiya of sheikh Ahmad Ashiq, which closed in 1954.

Being the new shaykh, he and his large family lived comfortably in the madrasa until his death in 1166, when his son, Abdul-Wahhab, succeeded his father as sheikh.

After lengthy negotiations between Anglo-Persian representatives and Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim, on 17 May 1935 the sheikh put his signature to a concession agreement for a period of 75 years in return for 400, 000 rupees on signature and 150, 000 rupees per annum with royalties.

The scholar sheikh here can govern but cannot lead directly because the leader is the imam which is based upon the Qur ' an and authentic Sunnah ; on the other hand the family sheikh can always lead but cannot govern unless he is wise.

In part, his claim was based on his status as a prominent Sufi sheikh with a large following in the Samaniyya order and among the tribes in the area around Aba Island.

How can there be anything less for mankind, created as Allah's vicegerent ( khalif or Caliphate ) ( this is a translation error, what sheikh zayid meant by calipha does not mean ruler, he is describing humans on earth are the caliphas of god meaning successors not head of state ) on earth?

A popular origin story of Popobawa proposes that in the 1970s an angry sheikh released a djinni to take vengeance on his neighbors.

The earliest monument of Muslim culture testifies to it on caucasus-a tombstone of sheikh Magomeda-ibn-Asada-ibn-Mugal, buried in Khnov in 675 d. C. About early islamisation of rutuls the earliest testify also in mountains of Dagestan monuments building epygraphic, found in some rutul villages.