Shaykh
Fakhruddin Owaisi al-Madani, of the people of Sayyidina Owais al-Qarni, is a muqaddam of the
Tijaniyya in Cape Town, South Africa. He was born in the USA but grew up and
studied in Medina al-Munawwara for 18 years. He has an MA in Islamic Studies
from the University of Cape Town and is the Imam of the Hout Bay Mosque in
Capetown. He is also the Head of the Sunni `Ulema Council of Cape Town. Shaykh
Fakhruddin studied with Sayyid Muhammad `Alawi al-Maliki of Mecca and also has
ijazah in Hadith from Sayyid Muhammad al-Yaqubi. He took the Tariqa from the
great Sufi master Shaykh Hassan Cisse of Senegal.
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