Monitoring the Impact of Sufi Beliefs on Tribal Communities' Urban Connectivity in Shazly Village in Egypt’s Eastern Desert.

The research studies the Sufi faith in the Islamic religion, as it is a religious philosophy that began with individual tendencies to achieve benevolence, but with the passage of time, its realization was associated with Sufi rituals and beliefs represented in collective organizations and architectural additions such as shrines and zikr circles, and beliefs directly affect the collective consciousness, whether religious and social, popular and cultural, and are reflected in the urban feature, such as the village of Al-Hassan Al-Shazli, which adopts the Islamic Sufi faith. The village is located in a geographically and architecturally isolated area in the desert of eyzab in the center of the eastern desert in the Red Sea region, and the choice of the location of the village is that it is located on the old pilgrimage route leading to Mecca, where Sheikh Abul Hassan Shadhli, founder of the Shadhili Sufi method, died while coming from his native Morocco on his way to perform the pilgrimage rites, and then turned into a shrine for religious tourism.

Through field studies and surveys of the urban context, major roads, classification of uses, monitoring the connectivity between the village site and other urban centers, and the impact of the religious shrine site on the surrounding tribal areas, this research emphasizes the need to create an urban fabric that is not limited to serving visitors to the shrine and ritual practices, but meets functional needs through an urban fabric that integrates the functions of tribal communities and takes into account the geographic and climatic nature of the region.

The research concludes by examining the impact of Sufi belief on the changing shape of the urban fabric of Sufi tribal communities. This includes monitoring the impact of belief on connectivity to surrounding urban areas and conceptualizing how to integrate all functions of the urban fabric as an approach to the urban development of isolated tribal areas.