Culture & Lifestyle
Every autumn, the industrial city of Tanta in Egypt’s Nile Delta transforms into a site of spiritual devotion and carnival-like celebration. Pilgrims pour into its streets by the hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, to pay homage to Ahmed Al-Badawi, known as Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, a revered 13th-century Muslim Sufi whose shrine stands at the heart of the city. Al-Badawi was born around the year 1199 in Fez, Almohad Caliphate, modern-day Morocco. He settled in Egypt, where he founded the Badawiyya order…
