b. Shaʿbān 1237/January-February 1822, d. 2 Jumādā II 1324/24 July 1906.
Sources
MS: K. al-Nashʾa al-Makkiyya. Khartoum (NRO), Misc., 1/82/1321. Obituary of Muḥammad al-Makkī.
MacMichael (1912), 70 n.l.; Willis (1922), 187; Trimingham (1949), 235; Hill (1967), 183; Holt (1970), 21 and passim; Shaked (1978), 6, 18-19, 22 and 27; Ibrahim, thesis (1980), 86-89 and passim, Radtke (1992), 119-20.
Biography
The eldest son of Ismāʿīl al-Walī, he was educated in his father’s school. His father appointed him head of the Ismāʿīliyya ṭarīqa while st…