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Abu Abdillah Muhammad al-Arabi ibn Ahmad al-Sharif al-Darqawi (b. c. 1150/1737 – d. 22 Safar 1239/28 October 1823) was a major Sufi of the Beni Zeroual tribe in Morocco's Rif; the nisba "Darqawi" derives from his ancestor Muhammad ibn Yusuf's epithet "Abu'l-Darqa." After studying at the Misbahiyya madrasa in Fez he entered the Shadhili path and founded the Darqawiyya, a reformist branch of the Shadhiliyya that spread widely in Morocco and Algeria in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He criticized worldly Sufism and stressed uniting knowledge with action; imprisoned in 1236/1820 for political involvement, he was released after Sultan Mawlay Sulayman's death (1238/1822). He is buried in the zawiya he founded at Bu Berih (Qudyat al-Adas) in the Rif mountains, between the Beni Hamd and Beni Zeroual tribes. The tomb's rural location has no reliable numeric coordinate, so the coordinate is left null. (Source: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam "Derkāvî" and "Derkāviyye"; en.wikipedia "Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi".)
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- TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (DİA) · vol. EK-1, pp. 318-320, entry “Derkāvî”
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