Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu

Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu
Born 1929
Tavşanlı (Miço village), Of, Trabzon, Turkey
Occupation Leader of the İsmailağa jamia of Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya Ṭarīqah
Religion Sunni-Hanafi Islam (İsmailağa Jamia of the Nakşibendi-Khalidiyya Ṭarīqah)

Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu, usually referred to as Mahmut Efendi and known to his disciples as Efendi Hazretleri, is a Turkish Sufi Sheikh and the leader of the influential İsmailağa jamia of the Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya Ṭarīqah centred in Çarşamba, Istanbul.

Early life

Ustaosmanoğlu was born to a village imam in Miço (now Tavşanlı) village of the Of district. He became a hafiz under his father by the age of 10 and continued his madrasa education, gaining his ijazah by the age of 16. Afterwards he married his cousin and started his work as an imam.[1]

Naqshbandi order

In 1952, Ustaosmanoğlu met Ahıskalı Ali Haydar Efendi (Gürbüzler), a Naqshbandi sheikh who he became his murshid. Ali Haydar Efendi appointed him as the imam of the İsmailağa Mosque in 1954.[2] By the year 1960, Ustaosmanoğlu's life had its greatest turn after Ali Haydar Efendi's demise and he became the leader of the sect. Nevertheless, some sources still debate the legitimacy of this succession.[3] In 1996, he retired as the imam of the İsmailağa Mosque.[2]

After 1996

Ustaosmanoğlu tried to keep a low profile in the following years, especially after the 1997 memorandum, but his relations came under public spotlight with a series of internal strife in the sect. His son-in-law Hızır Ali Muratoğlu was murdered in 1998 and in 2006, a retired imam named Bayram Ali Öztürk was murdered in the mosque and the man who stabbed him to death was lynched by the congregation.[4][5][6]

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is known to maintain close relations with Ustaosmanoğlu and a prosecution from 2007 to 2009 including wiretapping led to Erdoğan himself.[7] Erdoğan paid a highly publicised visit to Ustaosmanoğlu the night before the presidential election in 2014.[8]

The Khalid’îyyah - İsmailağa Jamia - Ṭarīqah silsila

# Name Buried Birth Death
1 Sayyadna Muhammad the last Prophet Madinah, Saudi Arabia Mon 12 Rabi al-Awwal

(570/571 CE)

 12 Rabi al-Awwal 11 AH

(5/6 June 632 CE)

2 Sayyadna Abu Bakr Siddiq Madinah, Saudi Arabia 22 Jumada al-Thani 13 AH

(22 August 634 C.E)

3 Sayyadna Salman al-Farsi Mada'in, Iraq 10 Rajab 33 AH

(4/5 February 654 C.E)

4 Imām Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr, son of son of (2) Madinah, Saudi Arabia 23 Shaban 24 AH

(22/23 June 645 C.E)

 24 Jumada al-Thani 101/106/107 AH
5 Imām Jafar Sadiq, son of granddaughter of (2) Madinah, Saudi Arabia 8 Ramadan 80 AH

(5/6 November 699 C.E)

 15 Rajab 148 AH

(6/7 September 765 C.E)

6 Khwaja Bayazid Bastami Bistam, Semnan province, Iran 186 AH

(804 C.E)

 15 Shaban 261 AH

(24/25 May 875 C.E)

7 Khwaja Abul-Hassan Kharaqani Kharaqan, near Bistam, Semnan province, Iran 352 AH

(963 C.E)

 10 Muharram 425 AH

(5/6 December 1033 C.E)

8 Khwaja Abu Ali Farmadī Toos, Khurasan, Iran 434 AH

(1042/1043 C.E)

 4 Rabi al-Awwal 477 or 511 AH

(10 July 1084 / 6 July 1117)

9 Khwaja Abu Yaqub Yusuf Hamadānī Marv, near Mary, Turkmenistan 440 AH

(1048/1049 C.E)

 Rajab 535 AH

(Feb/Mar 1141 C.E)

10 Khwaja Ahmad Yasavī Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Türkistan, Kazakhstan Sayram, Kazakhstan

(1093 C.E)

(1166 C.E)

11 Khwaja Abdul Khaliq Ghujdawani Ghajdawan, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 22 Shaban 435 AH

(24/25 March 1044 C.E)

 12 Rabi al-Awwal 575 AH

(17/18 August 1179 C.E)

12 Khwaja Arif Reogarī Reogar, near Bukhara, Uzbekistan 27 Rajab 551 AH

(15 September 1156 C.E)

 1 Shawwal 616 AH

(10/11 December 1219 C.E.)

13 Khwaja Mahmood Anjir-Faghnawi Bukhara, Uzbekistan 18 Shawwal 628 AH

(18/19 August 1231 C.E)

 17 Rabi al-Awwal 717 AH

(29/30 May 1317 C.E)

14 Khwaja Azizan Ali Ramitani Khwaarizm, Uzbekistan 591 AH

(1194 C.E)

 27 Ramadan 715 or 721 AH

(25/26 December 1315 or 20/21 October 1321)

15 Khwaja Muhammad Baba Samasī Samaas, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 25 Rajab 591 AH

(5/6 July 1195 C.E)

 10 Jumada al-Thani 755 AH

(2/3 July 1354 C.E)

16 Khwaja Sayyid Amir Kulal Saukhaar, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 676 AH

(1277/1278 C.E)

 Wed 2 Jumada al-Thani 772 AH

(21/22 December 1370 C.E)

17 Khwaja Muhammad Baha'ud-Dīn Naqshband Bukharī Qasr-e-Aarifan, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 4 Muharram 718 AH[9]

(8/9 March 1318 C.E)

 3 Rabi al-Awwal 791 AH

(2/3 March 1389 C.E)

18 Khwaja Ala'ud-Dīn Attar Bukhari, son-in-law of (17) Jafaaniyan, Transoxiana (Uzbekistan) Wed 20 Rajab 804 AH

(23 February 1402 C.E)

19 Khwaja Yaqub Charkhi Gulistan, Dushanbe, Tajkistan 762 AH

(1360/1361 C.E)

 5 Safar 851 AH

(21/22 April 1447 C.E)

20 Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar Samarkand, Uzbekistan Ramadan 806 AH

(March/April 1404 C.E)

 29 Rabi al-Awwal 895 AH

(19/20 February 1490 C.E)

21 Khwaja Muhammad Zahid Wakhshi Wakhsh 14 Shawwal 852 AH

(11/12 December 1448 C.E)

 1 Rabi al-Awwal 936 AH

(3/4 November 1529 C.E)

22 Khwaja Dervish Muhammad, son of sister of (21) Asqarar, Uzbekistan 16 Shawwal 846 AH

(17/18 February 1443 C.E)

 19 Muharram 970 AH

(18/19 September 1562 C.E)

23 Khwaja Muhammad Amkanaki, son of (22) Amkana, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 918 AH

(1512/1513 C.E)

 22 Shaban 1008 AH

(8/9 March 1600 C.E)

24 Khwaja Muhammad Baqī Billah Berang Delhi, India 5 Dhu al-Hijjah 971 or 972 AH

(14 July 1564 / 3 July 1565)

 25 Jumada al-Thani 1012 AH

(29/30 November 1603 C.E)

25 Shaikh Ahmad al-Farūqī al-Sirhindī, Imām Rabbānī Sirhind, India 14 Shawwal 971 AH

(25/26 May 1564 C.E)

 28 Safar 1034 AH

(9/10 December 1624 C.E)

26 Imām Khwaja Muhammad Masum Faruqī, 3rd son of (25) Sirhind, India 1007 AH

(1598/1599 C.E)

 9 Rabi al-Awwal 1099 AH

(13/14 January 1688 C.E)

27 Khwaja Muhammad Saif ud-Dīn Faruqī, son of (26) Sirhind, India 1049 AH

(1639/1640 C.E)

 19 or 26 Jumada al-awwal 1096 AH

(April 1685 C.E)

28 Sayyid Nur Muhammad Badayuni Delhi, India 11 Dhu al-Qi'dah 1135AH

(12/13 August 1723 C.E)

29 Shaheed Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan, Shams-ud-Dīn Habībullāh Delhi, India 11 Ramadan 1111 AH

(2/3 March 1700 C.E)

 10 Muharram 1195 AH

(Fri 5 January 1781 C.E)

30 Khwaja Abdullah Dehlavi, alias Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavī Delhi, India 1156 AH[10]

(1743 C.E)

 22 Safar 1240 AH

(15/16 October 1824 C.E)

31 Mawlānā Muhammad Khâlid-i Baghdâdî Damascus, Syria Sharazur, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq (1779 C.E)

(1827 C.E)

32 Abd Allah-i Mücâvir fi-Balad-î'l-Lâh,
alias Abd Allah-e Macca-e Erzincanī		 Mekke-i-Mükerreme Mekke-i-Mükerreme

?

?

33 Shaykh Mustafa İsmet Garibu'l-Lâh,

alias Grand Sheikh Affandy

 Çarşamba, Fatih-Istanbul, Turkey Ioannina, Ottoman Empire

1289 AH

34 Khwaja Khâlil-i Nûr-u Allah Zaghrawi Zara, Sivas, Ottoman Empire
35 Khwaja Ali Rezâ al-Bazzâz Affandy Tekke Camii, Bandırma, Balıkesir Province-Ottoman Empire Bulgaria 1330 AH
36 Khwaja Ali Haydâr Affandy, Akhaltsikhe, Batumi-Ottoman Empire 1288 AH
37 Khwaja Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu Tavşanlı, Of Trabzon, Turkey

(1929 C.E)
38 Khwaja Ahmad Mahmoud Ünlü,

alias Cübbeli Ahmad Hodja,
Khalifa of Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu

 Çarşamba, Fatih-Istanbul, Turkey (27 February 1965 C.E)

References

  1. ↑ Biyografi.net
  2. 1 2 Mahmut Efendi Hazretleri k.s.
  3. ↑ Mahmut Efendi'nin Şeyhliği Şüpheli
  4. ↑ Ahmet Şık, Niyazi Dalyancı, habervesaire.com, 18 February 2010, Warfare between judiciary and government
  5. ↑ Hurriyet Daily News, 12 September 2006, Questions arise in Turkish Parliament over Ismailaga Mosque murder
  6. ↑ Today's Zaman, 5 March 2012, No progress in imam Bayram Ali Öztürk’s murder case in five years
  7. ↑ Today's Zaman, 28 April 2013, Cihaner may tell commission about how he wiretapped PM
  8. ↑ Erdoğan’dan Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu'na sürpriz ziyaret
  9. ↑ Faiz Naqshband (Urdu Translation): Malfuzat of Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi, p.46
  10. ↑ Faiz Naqshband (Urdu Translation): Malfuzat of Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi, p.325
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