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Shaykh Muhammad al-Hashimi al-Tilimsani was born in Algeria in 1881 and settled in Damascus as a young man. A student of the Algerian Sufi master Ahmad…
Shaykh Muhammad al-Hashimi al-Tilimsani was born in Algeria in 1881 and settled in Damascus as a young man. A student of the Algerian Sufi master Ahmad al-Alawi, he became the leading shaykh of the Shadhili Darqawi path in Syria and an influential teacher of Ash'ari belief, and many Damascene scholars of the next generation studied with him. He passed away in 1961 and was buried in Rawdat al-Ulama in the al-Dahdah cemetery north of the old city. His son Ahmad is buried directly opposite him.