'Ibrahīm Bin ʿAbd-El-ʿAzīz 'Abu al-Magd (), better known as El Desouki (الدسوقي) (1255 in Desouk, Egypt – 1296), was an Egyptian Imam and the founder of the Desouki Order.
Life El Desouki was born in Desouk on the Nile Delta and lived there his whole life, hence his attribution to it.Jalāl al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Karkī, A definition of Wali Sīdī 'Ibrahīm al-Dosūqī, Taj 2006, page 8 According to traditions and popular sayings, he is a descendant of Ali ibn Abi Talib from his paternal side through Ali al-Hadi.True Knower of God Sīdī 'Ibrahīm al-Dosūqī. Municipality of Dessouk. Modarressi, Hossein (1993). Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shi'ite Islam: Abu Ja'Far Ibn Qiba Al-Razi and His Contribution to Imamite Shi'Ite Thought. Darwin Press. .
See, for instance, Sha'riini, 1: 181 (the biography of the Sufishaykh, Ibriihim b. Abi 'I-Majd al-Dusuqi [d. 67611277-81, who descends from Ja'far as a twelfth-generation descendant of his, hence a thirteenth generation descendant of Ali-Al Hadi) El Desouki was influenced by the Shadhili Sufi order founded by his uncle Abu al-Hasan Shadhili and was as well close to his contemporary Sufi Ahmad al-Badawi of Tanta.Fauzi Muḥammad Abu Zaid, Sheikh ul-Islam Ibrahīm al-Dosūqī, Life and belief house, Cairo, 2008, p.91. He became Sheikh ul-Islam of Egypt during Baibars' rule.
His feast is celebrated twice a year: the first during April, and the second on October the 2nd.About Desouk Centre Municipality of Desouk.
See also List of Sufis Ibrahim El Desouki Mosque Desouk Desouki
Sources
External links Anatomy of Sufism, Al-Ahram