Muhammad al-Hashimi al-Tilimsani

[1] Shaykh al-Hashimi was born to parents who traced their lineage back to Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī, in the town of Sabda, in the vicinity of Tlemcen.

[2] In 1911 CE, during Ramadan, 1329 AH, al-Hashimi emigrated with his Shaykh Muhammad ibn Yallas to Syria, fleeing the French colonial administration’s restrictions on traditional scholarship.

After the death of Ibn Yallas in 1927 CE/1346 AH, when the famous Shaykh Aḥmad al-ʿAlāwī passed through Damascus on his way back from Mecca, he designated al-Hāshimī as his deputy in the Middle East.

[2] Shaykh al-Hāshimī would eventually become the representative par excellence of the ʿAlāwiyya in the Levant, with many of his disciples and spiritual descendants still teaching to this day, in the lineage of what came to be called the Shādhiliyya-Darqāwiyya-Hāshimiyya tariqa.

[1] In his long teaching career, he published only nine titles that include didactic poems and small treatises of a few pages, dealing with only two disciplines: Sufism and scholastic theology (kalām).