Cover illustration: A section of the procession (mawkib) on the occasion of the mawlid al-nabawī in Cairo in 1973. The section (kutla) is the section assigned to al-Burhāniyya al-Dissūqiyya al-Shādhiliyya. This ṭarīqa was dissolved in October 1979. Photo made by Frederick de Jong.
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