7mi/12km southwest of Tell el-Faraun, on the right bank of the Rosetta arm of the Nile (here spanned by a railroad bridge), is the little town of Desuq, to which there is a great pilgrimage on the birthday of a local holy man, Ibrahim el-Desuqi, founder of the Burhamiya Dervish Order. The mosque which he founded (rebuilt 1885), with a medrese
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