Orders
Silsilas of Central Asia
Nine lineages and living branches that have shaped the spiritual imagination of the Silk Road.
- KubrawiyyaKubravi · Kubrawic. 1200 CE — KhwarazmA Khwarazmian path whose descendants crossed the Silk Roads
- YasaviyyaYassavi · Yasawi12th c. CE — Turkistan (Yasi)A Turkic voice becoming poetry, communities, shrines, and sacred memory
- KhwājagānThe Masters12th c. CE — BukharaThe path of the masters and the eight sacred sayings
- Naqshbandiyya14th c. CE — BukharaThe path of the silent engraved remembrance
- Mujaddidiyya17th c. CE — Sirhind, PunjabThe Naqshbandī renewal of the second millennium
- Nūrbakhshiyya15th c. CE — KhurasanA Kubrawī offshoot of the Nūr al-Muḥammadī
- Bektashiyya13th c. CE — AnatoliaThe Anatolian daughter of the Yasavī steppe
- Chishtiyya12th c. CE — Chisht, AfghanistanSamāʿ, hospitality, and love as method
- NursafardiyyaNur Safar WayLiving tradition — UzbekistanA living Central Asian path of healing, martial arts and Zikr