Moulid_0004

A woman sits in front of the shrine of one of the Disuqiya Sufi order’s masters, in Al-Batiniya, Cairo, on the eve of Fatimah al-Nabawiya’s moulid. People print sheets of paper inscribed with prayers to hang on the walls of the shrine. Most of the Sufi shrines do not actually contain the bodies of their masters, but were built because of a vision by a follower, in which the master ordered him or her to build the shrine in a particular place.