At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era · The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · South Asia · Anatolia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Overview
The Naqshbandi order is among the most widespread Sufi orders in Islamic history; it is named after Baha al-Din Naqshband of Bukhara (d. 791 AH/1389 CE) and was marked from its Central Asian beginnings by silent remembrance (dhikr khafi) rather than audible dhikr, and by outward sobriety 1.
Spread and branches
The order extended from Khorasan into the Ottoman lands and then into India, where its best-known branch — the Mujaddidi — arose under Ahmad Sirhindi; recent scholarship documents its Mujaddidi networks running through Yarkand, Kabul and Sindh in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 2. Kashf al-Zunun attests Naqshbandi affiliations of Ottoman-era scholars 3.
Connections
- Has member
- Ghazi Muhammad· Imam Shamil· Jamaat Ali Shah· Muhammad Shafee Okarvi· Sulaiman Nadvi
People and things also explored
The Deobandi movement· Ashraf Ali Thanwi· Gamzat-bek· Kazi-Magomed· Shibli Nomani· al-Baqi' (Baqi' al-Gharqad)· Medina· Ghazi Muhammad
Sources
- J. Spencer Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (Oxford 1998) , p. 31
- Waleed Ziad, 'From Yarkand to Sindh via Kabul' (2018)
- Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Naqshbandi order”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/naqshbandiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.