Atlas
About this atlas
The atlas holds the chains of transmission from the Prophet as the standard references and the classical sources record them: the Sufi orders, the chains of Qurʾān recitation, the teachers of the schools of law and ḥadīth, and the lines of the Prophet's family, with the places they spread and the living houses and teachers who carry them today. Every link shows its sources; where they differ, both readings are shown, and we do not rule on any community's claims. Ibn ʿArabī's own life, teachers and readers are on their own page.
العربي الدرقاوي
Mawlāy al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī
Died 1239/1823
Most famous khalīfa of ʿAlī al-Jamal; first tekke at Bū Barīḥ; order named for him
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
No chain up to the Prophet is recorded for this person in the sources read.
How to read the marks
- Two sources: a solid rule. Two independent references give the same link.
- One source: a lighter rule, so labelled.
- The community's own account: a dotted rule. The order tells it; we have not yet read it against a reference source.
- A gap in the rule: the sources omit names between the two. The label says which.
- The sources differ: tap the ≠ to read each reading with its source.
- A ring: a spiritual link, without a meeting (uwaysī).
Who received from Mawlāy al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī
5 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kattānīمحمد بن عبد الكبير الكتاني1909
two sourcesin Kattāniyyaomits: all intermediary shaykhs between al-Darqāwī (d. 1823) and Muḥammad al-Kattānī (b. 1873); the sources give a derivation, not a chainsources differ
companionship (ṣuḥba) · Mawlāy al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī · Two independent sources
Eickelman: the order drew on the teachings and practices of the Darqāwī order; Trimingham lists the Kattāniyya among Darqāwī branches. Neither names an initiating chain.
Dale F. Eickelman, 'Kattaniya Brotherhood', Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, via Encyclopedia.comTrimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), local .txt, Kattaniyya entryChecked against
- Eickelman, Kattaniya Brotherhood, single entry · agreesOrder drew on the older Darqāwī order.
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), local .txt, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L6344 · agreesKattāniyya is item 6 in the list of Darqāwī branches; founded c. 1850 at Fez by a Kattānī, developed from 1890.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Wikipedia (Muhammad al-Kattani) names no Darqāwī, Aḥmadiyya or Idrīsī-Sanūsī teacher; it records only a Shādhilī student, Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Fāsī. No source read supports an Aḥmadiyya root.Wikipedia, Muhammad al-Kattani (tertiary)
- Muḥammad al-Hibrīمحمد الهبري
one sourcein Shādhiliyyaomits: intermediaries the data does not name
initiation · Mawlāy al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī to Muḥammad al-Hibrī · One source
Compressed: the zawiya's own account (Amrouche) names al-Darqāwī then al-Hibrī without the intermediaries.
the community's own account: Zawiya Belqaidiyya, YouTube channel (talks and biographic blocks)Checked against
- Amrouche talk bgn0AFToBHs, @09:00-09:23 · agreesLists Ibn Mashīsh, al-Shādhilī, al-Darqāwī and al-Hibrī as 'our shaykhs'; intermediaries not named.
- ʿAlī Nūr al-Dīn al-Yashruṭī al-Tūnisīعلي نور الدين اليشرطي1899
one sourcein Shādhiliyya
initiation · Mawlāy al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī to ʿAlī Nūr al-Dīn al-Yashruṭī al-Tūnisī · One source
TDV Yeşrutî: he first attached himself to al-Darqāwī.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, YeşrutîNot yet checked against a further reference.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Bāshāمحمد بن عبد القادر الباشا
the community's own accountin Shādhiliyya
initiation · Mawlāy al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Bāshā · The community's own account
One forum silsila puts Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Bāshā directly under al-Darqāwī; no other source read names him.
elmoheba.yoo7.com forum, 'Rijal sanad al-tariqa al-Belqaidiyya al-Hibriyya' (low grade, unsourced)Not yet checked against a further reference.
- Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Ḥamza Ẓāfir al-Madanīمحمد حسن ظافر المدني1847
the community's own accountin Shādhiliyya
initiation · Mawlāy al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī to Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Ḥamza Ẓāfir al-Madanī · The community's own account
Taleb: Ẓāfir al-Madanī is a successor of al-Darqāwī (as relayed by Amrouche).
L. R. Taleb, PhD thesis, Univ. of Toronto 2023, sec. 2.5 and n. 110 (read in the owner's library; not re-read here)Not yet checked against a further reference.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Mawlāy al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/al-darqawi (data of 31 October 2026).