Abder-Rahman Elîsh El-Kebîr
Abder-Rahman Elîsh El-Kebîr is the son of the sheik Muhammad Elîsh, large Mufti malékite of Egypt, the sheik Abder-Rahman Elîsh El-Kebîr died in the year 1349 of the Hégire (year 1930 of the Gregorian Calendrier). Itself was chief of the maḏhab malékite at the University inhabitant of Cairo of Al-Azhar. It is said that a Fatwa published by Elîsh had for principal consequence the revolt of Arabi Pasha in 1882, and imprisonment of the father and the son. Pardoned, then exiled, Abder-Rahman will be again imprisoned during two years, before being pardoned and will be sent to Rhodos. Of return in Egypt, it will recover the eminent Islamic function which returned to him from right. During its voyages, it passed in particular by Damas, where it bound friendship with the Emir Abd El-Kader. It is besides him which will practice the funeral rites on the body of the Emir in 1883. It will bury Abd El-Kader close to the tomb of the “ Sheik Al-Akbar ” (“the largest Master”, in Arabic), Muhyi-D-DIN Ibn Arabi. In fact, apart from its official occupations, Abder-Rahman, like Abd El-Kader, was a large spiritual Master. Sheik of the Chadhiliyya, it had many contacts with the Occident, trying to bring the Christianisme closer to the Islam, by stressing in particular on the perfect recognition of the former revelations by the Islamic religion. Large expert of the masonry, it made an effort, in his relationship with Europeans, to show the agreement between the universal symbols present among Freemasons as among Moslems.
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