Draft:Muhammad Nuru'l Arabi

Muhammad Nûru'l-Arabi (1813-1888) is an Arabic-Turkish Sufi known the "Arab Hodja" in Anatolia and the Balkans. Muhammad Nûru'l-Arabi's full name along with his surname is Muhammed Nûru'l-Arabî al-Mısrî al-Mahallî al-Bedri al-Hanefî al-Huseynî. His father was Ibrahim al-Kudsi and his grandfather was Bedrü'l-Velî. Nûru'l-Arabi's family emigrated from Jerusalem to Egypt.

Biography
Nûru'l-Arabi, whose father passed away when he was four years old, lived with his uncle until he was seven years old. While staying with him, he started his education at the age of seven and first studied at Jami' al-Azhar.He takes lessons from Hasan al-Kuveysni and stayed with his teacher for nine years. When Nûru'l-Arabî was about sixteen years old, he went to Yanya (Ioannina), which is in present-day Greece, with Sheikh Ahmed Efendi of Yanya, by the order of his teacher. Nûru'l-Arabi, who was affiliated with the Naqshbandi sheikh Yusuf Efendi, lived for eight months by his order in Yanya.

He worked as a teacher. He went to Hijaz again and met with Sheikh Abdülhâlık Kazanî and later received initiation of Naqshbandi Sufi school from Kazani's successor Mustafa Trabzoni in 1843.

After his spiritual experiences, he returned to Skopje in the Balkans in 1853, where he lived in the south-east of Skopje.He settled in Strumica. Upon the invitation of his loved ones. Muhammad Nûru'l-Arabi died in his home in Strumica on 12 March 1887 and was buried in the room where he died. Later, a mausoleum was built here, but as a result of the political changes in the region, the tomb was demolished and replaced by a tomb erected only to mark thelocation.