Kubrawiya
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TheKubrawiyaorder (Arabic:سلسلة کبرویة) orKubrawiorder,[1]also known asKubrawi Hamadani,orHamadani Kubra,[citation needed]is aSufiorder that traces its spiritual lineage (Silsilah) to the Islamic prophet,Muhammad,throughAli,Muhammad's cousin, son-in-law and the First Imam. This is in similar to most other Sufi orders that trace their lineage to Ali. The Kubrawiya order is named after its 13th-century founderNajm al-Din Kubra,who lived inKonye-Urgenchunder theKhwarazmian dynasty(present dayTurkmenistan).[2]TheMongolscaptured Konye-Urgench in 1221 and killed much of the population including Sheikh Najmuddin Kubra.
The Kubrawiya order places emphasis on being a universal approach.[3] It is popular in eastern India, Bangladesh and Mauritius and some areas of Pakistan as well.
Branches
[edit]Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadaniwas the refounder of the Kubrawiyyah order and expanded in parts of today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, and Central Asian countries in the 14th century. In Iran the Kubrawiya order was split into branches after Khwaja Ishaq Khatlani succeed the founder. Eventually, differences within the order had arisen between the two claimants to succeed the leadership in which one group called themselves the Nurbakshia group comprising the supporters of Nurbaksh while the other group supported Barzish Abadi who was based inMashhad. TheNoorbakshiaare seen in areas small population in Baltistan. The other attributed to Syed Abdullah Barzish Abadi and it spread first in Khorasan, then spread in other countries.[4]
Notable Kubrawiya
[edit]- Najm al-Dīn Rāzī Dāya(1177–1256)
- Saʿd al-Dīn al-Ḥamuwayī(1190–1260)
- Sayf al-Dīn Bākharzī(1190–1261)
- Emīr Sulṭān(1368–1429)
References
[edit]- ^Adel, Gholamali Haddad; Elmi, Mohammad Jafar; Taromi-Rad, Hassan (2012),Sufism: An Entry from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam,EWI Press, pp. 53–,ISBN978-1-908433-08-4
- ^The Kubravi order
- ^Stump, Roger W. (2008),The Geography of Religion: Faith, Place, and Space,Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 196–,ISBN978-0-7425-8149-4
- ^Sufism, Sufis, and Sufi Orders: Sufism's Many Paths
Further reading
[edit]External links
[edit]- The Kubrawi order(kubrawi.org)
- The Kubravi order
- Sufia Imamia Noorbakhshia
- Website of Dr. Alan Godlas(University of Georgia)
- Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi(Nurbakhshi Kubrawi)