The Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya in the Ottoman Lands in the Early 19Th Century

Abstract

The Khalidiyya is a sub-order of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi order. It spread from India to the Ottoman lands of western Asia and Istanbul in the early decades of the nineteenth century on the hands of Shaikh Diya' al-Din Khalid al-Shahrazuri, after whom it came to be known. It is believed that the expansion of the Khalidiyya, along with an earlier wave of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya, which spread to Istanbul in the eighteenth century, had left an impact, perhaps a far-reaching one, upon the social and political life of these lands. We shall try in this paper to assess this impact and to find whether it also influenced the organs of the central government in Istanbul, or contributed to a renewed emphasis upon the orthodox-Islamic character of society and state.