known as Ibn Muḥyī ’l-Dīn Qāsim al-Barāwī, b. 1295/1878-79, d. 14 Ramaḍān 1340/12 May 1922.
Sources
Cerulli (1957-64), i, 150-51, 188, 192, 196 and 199; Adan (1993), 300, and Kassim (1995), 33-35.
Biography
Born into the Waʾilī clan in Barawe. He was a member of the Qādiriyya and a follower of Uways b. Muḥammad al-Barāwī (q.v.). A prolific poet in both Arabic and Chimbalazi, his best known work is the majmūʿa listed below. This contains nine poems by prominent Sufi leaders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tha…