Cairo
Muhammad al-Habibi was an Idrisi sharif, descended from Sayyiduna al-Hasan ibn Ali, born in Fez in 1175 AH. He came to Egypt with his father as a young man…
Muhammad al-Habibi was an Idrisi sharif, descended from Sayyiduna al-Hasan ibn Ali, born in Fez in 1175 AH. He came to Egypt with his father as a young man and studied at al-Azhar, spent five years in Makkah and Madinah, and then settled in Cairo, where his followers became the Habibiyya order. He passed away in 1271 AH. His mosque and shrine stand on al-Sadd Street in the Sayyida Zaynab district. The mosque was renovated in 1247 AH, in his lifetime, and still serves the people of the quarter.