Yasaviyya
Ahmad Yasawi
c. 1093-1166
Yasi / Turkistan
Sufi Silsila
Lineage as a living map
Trace the masters, cities, and houses that carry Central Asian Sufism from Khurasan and Turkistan into the living traditions of Uzbekistan today.
Khurasan · Transoxiana · Khwarazm · Turkistan · Uzbekistan
Khwajagan seed
Yusuf Hamadani
1048-1140
Merv / Bukhara
Khwajagan
Abd al-Khaliq Ghujdawani
d. 1179
Ghujduwan
Kubrawiyya
Najm al-Din Kubra
1145-1221
Khwarazm
Naqshbandiyya
Bahauddin Naqshband
1318-1389
Bukhara
Naqshbandiyya
Khwaja Ahrar
1404-1490
Samarkand
Contemporary Sufi school
Nursafardiyya
Contemporary
Uzbekistan
Lineage Notes
Masters, places, and houses
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Yassaviyya living practice context
Ahmad Yasawi
Yasi / Turkistan
Nursafardiyya
Uzbekistan
A living Uzbek tradition presenting Ilahism, Zikr, Sema, breath, healing, and martial arts.
Yasavi stream
Yusuf Hamadani
Merv / Bukhara
Ahmad Yasawi
Yasi / Turkistan
Founder of the Turkic Sufi poetic and communal dhikr current.
Khwajagan stream
Yusuf Hamadani
Merv / Bukhara
Abd al-Khaliq Ghujdawani
Ghujduwan
Codifier of the Khwajagan principles inherited by the Naqshbandiyya.
silent dhikr inheritance
Abd al-Khaliq Ghujdawani
Ghujduwan
Bahauddin Naqshband
Bukhara
Eponym of the Naqshbandi path of silent engraved remembrance.
Naqshbandi social flowering
Bahauddin Naqshband
Bukhara
Khwaja Ahrar
Samarkand
Timurid-era master of social ethics, waqf, and public influence.