The Jaririya order is named for its founder, Sheikh Eid Abu Jarir, who was a member of the Sawarka tribe and the Jarira clan, and established the order in Sinai in the 1940s.
[1] The Jarira clan resides in the vicinity of Bir al-Abed.
[2][3] It has 130 affiliated mosques in Egypt today.
[1] In reaction to the Sinai Province group's threats, the Jaririya order had decided to rebuild its maqam shrines without domes.
[4] The Jaririya order is lineally descended from the Alawi-Ahmadi, Alawiyya, Darqawa, and Shadhili branches.