Encyclopedia of Islam

Naqshbandi Sufi Order

  

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materials that figure prominently in a reconstruc-

tion of the history of Naqshbandis in the region. 

Today branches of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order 

exist in Turkey, Bosnia, s

yria

,  p

akistan

, India, 

b

angladesh

,  a

Fghanistan

,  i

ndonesia

,  m

alaysia

,

Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China, Britain, and 

the Americas.

See also  h

aqqani

,  m

Uhammad

  n

azim

 

al

-; 

reneWal

 

and

 

reForm

 

movements

; s

hamil

; s

UFism

.

Megan Adamson Sijapati

Further reading: Arthur F. Buehler, Sufi Heirs of the 

Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the 

Mediating Sufi Shaykh (Columbia: University of South 

Carolina Press, 1998); Elisabeth Ozdalga, ed., Naqsh-

bandis in Western and Central Asia: Change and Continu-

ity (Istanbul: Curzon Press, 1999); Vernon Schubel, 

“Post-Soviet Hagiography and the Reconstruction of the 

Naqshbandi Tradition in Contemporary Uzbekistan.” 

In Naqshbandis in Western and Central Asia: Change and 

Continuity, edited by Elisabeth Ozdalga, 73–87 (Istan-

bul: Curzon Press, 1999).