Tradition Institution Islam
Sufism
صوفية ar تصوف fa
Body of mystical practice within Islam
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Branches · 2
Many paths. Shared histories.
2 branches recorded under Sufism, one step down, as the records give them.
What this means
Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.
Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded as a branch of
Traditions whose own records say they belong to it
10 traditions name Sufism as their own — an affiliation, so kept apart from the tree.
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Belongs to itmonotheism in Islam
Islam's central monotheistic concept of a single, indivisible God -
Belongs to itNaqshbandi
Major spiritual order of Sunni Islam Sufism -
Belongs to itRahmaniyya
Algerian Sufi order founded by Kabyle religious scholar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Azhari Bu Qabrayn in the 1770s - Belongs to it
Tijaniyyah
Sufi tariqa within sufism - Belongs to it
Al-Ahbash
Sunnite religious movement - Belongs to it
Roshaniyya
Sufi movement founded in 16th-century Afghanistan - Belongs to it
Tajalli
Islamic and Sufi concept - Belongs to it
Uwaisi
Islamic Sufi order
Attributed founding
Whom the records name as founder
What this means
An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Figures · 23
Begin with a figure
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 23 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Hafezc. 1325 CE – 1389 CE · Persian poet and mystic (1325–1389) -
Al-Ghazali1058 CE – 19 December 1111 CE · Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111) -
Mansur Al-Hallajc. 858 CE – 26 March 922 CE · Persian mystic, poet and Sufi teacher (c.858–922) -
Said Nursî1877 CE – 23 March 1960 CE · Turkish Sunni Muslim theologian of Kurdish origin (1876-1960) -
Inayat Khan5 July 1882 CE – 5 February 1927 CE · founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism -
Mu'in al-Din Chishti1 February 1143 CE – 15 March 1236 CE · Persian Sufi Chishtiyya order mystic (1143–1236) -
Ahmad Sirhindi26 June 1564 CE – 1624 CE · Philosopher (1564-1624) -
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Sidi Boushaki1394 CE – 1453 CE · Algerian theologian, exeget, linguist and sufi -
Safi-ad-din Ardabili1252 CE – 12 September 1334 CE · poet, mystic, teacher and Sufi master -
Abul Hasan ash-Shadhilic. 1197 CE – December 1258 CE · Founder of the Shadhili order -
Ahmad al-Badawi1199 CE – 1276 CE · 13th-century Moroccan founder of Badawiyyah Sufi order -
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Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi1885 CE – 13 July 1944 CE · Indian Islamic scholar (1885–1944)
Not its own picture Sidi Boushaki — lead image of the Spanish Wikipedia article
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- Figure Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri Theologian
- Figure Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi Persian Muslim scholar (c. 1145 – 1234)
- Figure Sahl al-Tustari Arabian Sufi, Islamic theologian
- Figure Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi Sufi Maturidi scholar and Hanafi jurist
- Figure Ahmed ar-Rifa'i 6th-century founder of Rifa'i Sufi Order
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Figure Ahmad al-Alawi Founder of a popular modern Sufi order -
Figure Yusuf Hamdani Central Asian Sufi teacher (1048/49–1140) -
Figure Sheikh Ghalib Turkish poet - Figure Muḥammad Ibn-al-Ḥusain as-Sulamī Khorasani Islamic scholar and sufi
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Figure ʿUbaidallāh Ibn-Maḥmūd Aḥrār Sufi master and Islamic scholar (1404–1490) - Figure Abdullah al-Harari Harari Islamic scholar
Places · 10
Places and sites
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 10 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Sheikh Safi al-Din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble
Mausoleum in Ardabil, Iranian national heritage site -
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Jama Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri
16th-century mosque in Uttar Pradesh, India -
Durbalı Sultan Tekke
Albanian Bektashi monastery of Farsala, Greece -
Amin al-Din Jebrail Mausoleum
Mausoleum in Ardabil, Iranian national heritage site -
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Haydar Amuli Mausoleum
Mausoleum tower in Amol, Iranian national heritage site -
Ya'qub ibn al-Layth Mausoleum
Mausoleum in Jondishapur, Iranian national heritage site -
Shebeli Tower
Mausoleum tower in Damavand, Iranian national heritage site -
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Awhadi Maraghai Mausoleum
Mausoleum tower in Maragheh, Iranian national heritage site
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Festivals and practices · 2
Festivals, holy days and practices
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 2 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A holy day’s day is the one its record states it is observed on. A festival recurs, so it has no date on the historical clock, and one named here is not evidence of when or where it was kept.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Holy days and festivals · 1, each with the day its record gives
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Rites and practices · 1, with no day on record
The Islam collection holds 29 festivals and practices in all; 27 of them do not name Sufism on their own records. See them in the collection
Institutions · 2
Offices
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 2 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A ruling house that names a tradition is a family’s recorded affiliation, not its subjects’ practice; an office is a line of holders, not a family.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Connections
How Sufism connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 2
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Documented influence 1
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Place 3
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- is located in Muslim world Muslim-majority countries, states, districts, or towns
- is located in world term ambiguously referring to any of: the whole of reality, the universe, the Earth and all life upon it, or human civilization
- is located in worldwide published or operating in multiple or all jurisdictions on Earth; special value for "place of publication" (P291) and "operating area" (P2541)
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
9 statements on this record
- 9 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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