Idries Shah

Idries Shah

male, deceased (1996)
Idries Shah, also known as Idris Shah, né Sayyid Idris al-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد إدريس الهاشمي), was an author in the Naqshbandi sufist tradition...
Ahmad Sirhindi

Ahmad Sirhindi

male, deceased (1624)
Shaykh Ahmad al-Farooqi Sirhindi was an Islamic scholar and prominent member of the Naqshbandi Sufi order. He is regarded as having rejuvenated...

Omar Ali-Shah

male
Omar Ali-Shah was a prominent exponent of modern Naqshbandi sufism. He wrote a number of books on the subject, and was head of a large number of...

Khalid Al-Baghdadi

male, deceased (1826)
Khalid al-Baghdadi was a Naqshbandi Sufi Sheikh and founder of the Khalidi branch of the Naqshbandi order. He was born in Shehrezur, Karadag an...

Baha-Ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari

male
Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari was the founder of what would become one of the largest and most influential Sufi Muslim orders, the Naqshbandi....

Shaykh Nazim Al-Qubrusi

male, 87 years old
His Holy Eminence, Shaykh al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Khatim as-Saadat Sayyid at-Taifa Sultanul-Awliya, al-Imam al-`Arif Billah As-Shaykh As-Sayyid...
Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani

Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani

male, deceased (1220)
Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani (d. 1220) was one of a group of Central Asian Sufi teachers known simply as Khwajagan (the Masters) of the Naqshbandi order....

Ernest Scott

male
Ernest Scott, the author name under which the book "The People of the Secret" (1983) was published, was a pseudonym used by noted English...

Abdullah Fa'Izi Ad-Daghestani

male, deceased (1973)
Abdullah Fa'izi ad-Daghestani Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Sufi order.He was born in the Caucasian region of Daghestan (then part of the Russian...
Ahmet Kayhan Dede

Ahmet Kayhan Dede

male
Ahmet Kayhan Dede was born in the Mako-Aktarlar village of Malatya province, Turkey in 1891 and died on August 3, 1998. Apprentices of Islamic...