Eid Abu Jarir

Eid Abu Jarir (Arabic: عيد أبو جرير; 1910–1971)[1] was a Sufi shaykh who founded the eponymous Jaririya Sufi order in Sinai, Egypt.

Alongside his teacher Abu Ahmed al-Ghazawi, who founded the Alawi-Ahmadi tariqah, he is considered one of the founders of Sufism in the Sinai Peninsula.

[5] He was part of the Sinai Mujahideen, which fought against Israel alongside the Egyptian military in the 1967 to 1970 War of Attrition.

[4][6] He was driven out of North Sinai in the 1960s, and lived the rest of his life and has his tomb in Sa'ed, El Husseiniya, near Cairo.

[7] Under law number 118 for the year 1976, his Jariri order is officially registered by the Egyptian government.