Ahmad al-Badawi
Aḥmad al-Badawī (Egyptian Arabic: أحمد البدوى, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈæħmæd elˈbædæwi]), also known as al-Sayyid al-Badawī (السيد البدوى [esˈsæjjed elˈbædæwi]), was a 13th-century Arab Sufi Muslim mystic who became famous as the founder of the Badawiyyah order of Sufism. Born in Fes, Morocco to a Bedouin tribe originally from the Syrian Desert, al-Badawi eventually settled for good in Tanta, Egypt in 1236, where he developed a posthumous reputation as "one of the greatest saints in the Arab world".