Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

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– 1986

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Who was Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen?

Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen was a Tamil-speaking teacher and Sufi mystic from the island of Sri Lanka who first came to the United States on October 11, 1971 and established the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia. From Philadelphia, with its approximately 1,000 followers, branches of the Fellowship have spread throughout the United States and Canada, as well Australia and the UK. Societies of followers were already in Jaffna and Colombo, Sri Lanka before his arrival in the USA.

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Also known as
  • M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
  • Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Died
Dec 8, 1986

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on July 23, 2013

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