Dessouki or El Dessouki is an Arabic surname carried by Sayyid families descendants of Imam
al-Husayn through the intermediary of
Sharaf al-Din Musa the brother of Sidi
Ibrahim al-Dessouki, an Egyptian Sufi imam of the 13th century, founder of
Burhaniyya
The Tariqa Burhāniyya ( ''Ṭarīqa al burhāniyya al disūqiyyah al shādhliyyah''; also written ''al-Burhāniyya or Burhāniyyah'') or Desuqiyya is a Sufi order founded by Sayyidi Abul Hasan ash-Shadhuli and Sayyidi Ibrahim al Disuqi in t ...
or
Desukiyya sufi order and one of the four centers of supervision of
Sufism
Sufism ( or ) is a mysticism, mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic Tazkiyah, purification, spirituality, ritualism, and Asceticism#Islam, asceticism.
Practitioners of Sufism are r ...
. This surname can also be worn by the heirs of this order or simply in relation to the town of
Dessouk located in the
Nile Delta
The Nile Delta (, or simply , ) is the River delta, delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world's larger deltas—from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the eas ...
where we find the
mausoleum of Sidi Ibrahim al-Dessouki.
among the people who bear this name are:
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Salah Dessouki (1922–2011), Egyptian fencer
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Yehia Dessouki (born 1978), Egyptian painter and visual artist
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Ad-Desouki (died 1815), Egyptian jurist
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Nagwa El Desouki (born 1971), Swiss slalom canoer
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