Cairo
Muhammad Zaki Ibrahim was born in 1906 in Bulaq Abu al-Ila, the son of the Azhari scholar Ibrahim al-Khalil. He earned the Alimiyya of al-Azhar and became a…
Muhammad Zaki Ibrahim was born in 1906 in Bulaq Abu al-Ila, the son of the Azhari scholar Ibrahim al-Khalil. He earned the Alimiyya of al-Azhar and became a jurist, hadith scholar, poet and preacher, and he founded al-Ashira al-Muhammadiyya, a Sufi order devoted to learning and to following the Sunna. He passed away in 1998. His tomb is in the al-Mashayikh mosque of al-Ashira al-Muhammadiyya on Sultan Ahmad Street, in the Qaytbay cemetery.