Welcome to the Official Home-Page of the al-Zawiyah Institute, situated on the slopes of Table Mountain, in Walmer Estate, Cape Town. This institution was founded  in 1920 by al-marhoom, Shaykh Muhammad Salih Hendricks.

The history of the al-Zawiyah is steeped in the rich legacy of traditional Islamic scholarship, as practiced and transmitted by the great scholars of the Hijaz.