IslHornAfr

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Identification

Šayḫ Ṣūfī, ʻAbd Al-Raḥmān b. ʻAbd Allāh al-Šāšī شيخ صوفي عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله الشاشي
Ḥāǧǧ Ṣūfī حاج صوفي
Quṭb al-Banādir قطب البنادر

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He was born in Mogadishu from a family belonging to the Shanshiya clan. He started his studies in the same city and completed them in Warsheikh, an Islamic center north of Mogadishu. He belonged to the Qādiriyya order, spreading it in the Banadir region.

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