The Budshishiyya () is a Moroccan Sufi order (tariqa), a branch of the Qadiriyya. Abu Madyan ibn Munawar al-Budshish established the order in northeastern Morocco in the 1940s.Sedgwick, Mark. "In Search of a Counter-Reformation: Anti-Sufi Stereotypes and the Budshishiyya's Response." In Michelle Browers, ed. An Islamic Reformation?. Lexington Books. 2004. Page 133. It is the largest tariqa in Morocco, with several hundred thousand followers.Spiegel, Avi Max. Young Islam: The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World. Princeton University Press. 2017. Page 39. Outside of Morocco, France is home to the greatest number of adherents, including both Maghrebi immigrants and French converts. Leccese, Francesco Alfonso. "Islam, universal Sufism, counterculture movements and traditional Sufi networks." In Roberto Tottoli, ed., Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West. Page 323. In France, the politician Bariza Khiari and the rapper Abd al Malik are among its members.Piraino, F. (2019). Les politiques du soufisme en France : le cas de la Qādiriyya Būdshīshiyya. Social Compass, 66(1), 130-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768618816095 (Original work published 2019)
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