List of Famous people with last name Ar-rifa-i

Ahmed ar-Rifa'i

First Name Ahmed
Last Name Ar-Rifa'i
Born on January 1, 1118
Died on January 1, 1182 (aged 64)

Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rifāʿī was a Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, known for being the eponymous founder of the Rifaʽi tariqa of Islam. He gave courses in Hadith, Fiqh, and Tafsir everyday except for Monday and Thursday. He sat in his pulpit afternoons on Monday and Thursday and preached to intellectuals and the public. The Rifaʽi order had its greatest following until it was overtaken by the Qadiri order. The Rifaʽi order is most commonly found in the Arab Middle East but also in Turkey, the Balkans and South Asia.

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