Naqshbandiyya Bibliography

By Vika Gardner

For reference only – please do not reproduce. July 13, 1999

Bibliography on Makhdum-i A'zam maintained separately.

Index

| General Histories | Historiography and Catalogues |

Literature, Theology and Religious Practices:

| Primary Sources | Secondary Sources, Before Twentieth Century | Secondary Sources, Twentieth Century |

By Region

| Eurasia | Turkey and Ottoman Empire | India and Southeast Asia | Balkans | Middle East | Other |

Sources are limited to those in languages which I know. (Sorry!) Information in brackets are notes or comments.

Origins, Biographies, and General Histories

Abdulloh, Hoji Ismatulloh. "Bahouddin Naqshband." In Ghoiiblar Xailidan Ëngan Chiroqlar, pp. 168-175. Edited by Zufarjon Jörarv. Tashkent: Özbekistan, 1994. [IU: BP 189.4 .G495 1994.]

Abul Muhsin Muhammad Boqir ibn Muhammad Ali. Bahouddin Balogardon. Tashkent: 1993. [From Naqsh/Nav, p. 6. Placement tenetive. Another possible title: Maqomoti hazrati Xoja Naqshband. Possible translator: Mahmud Hasanii.]

Ahmad, Sayyid Aminuddin. Sufiyah-yi Naqshband. Lahore: Maqbul akid’mi, 1973. [ILL Chicago research libs. In Urdu. 430 pp. Handwritten. Biographies of Naqshbandi saints.]

Algar, Hamid. "The Naqshbandi Order: A Preliminary Survey of its History and Significance." Studia Islamica 44 (1976): 123-152.

_____. "A Brief History of the NaqshbandÏ Order." Cheminements, pp. 3-44. [Cited as "Algar3"]

_____. "Political Aspects of Naqshbandi History." Cheminements, pp. 123-152.

Babinger, Franz. "Zur Frügeschichte des Naqschbendi-Ordens." Der Islam 13 (1923): 105-107.

Bahai, Nasrullah. [Risale-i Behaiyye] Buyuk Islam velisi Muhammed Behaeddin Shah Nakshibendi: hayati, sahsiyeti, menkibeleri. Istanbul: M. Sevket Eygi Matbaasi, 1966. [RLIN: UC Berkeley. 147 pp.]

Berezikov, Evgenii. (Nasafii) Hazrat Bahouddin Naqshband. Toshkent: Özbekiston Respublikasi Fanlar Akademiyasi "FAN," 1993. [48 pp. Brief history of the order from a believer’s perspective. Short quotes from other works. (Navoii, Sobiq). Some explanatory footnotes. UM: BP 80 .B16 B47 1993; IU: BP 80 .B227 B47 1993]

Bukhoro Davlat Universiteti. Jahon mulkining nigohboni. Bukhoro: 1993. [From Naqsh/Nav, p. 7]

Coslovi, Fr. "Il ruola secolare della tariqa naqshbandi: note preliminari." Annali Ca’Foscari 14 iii (ser. or. 6, 1975): 123-129.

Damrel, David William. "The Spread of Naqshbandî Political Thought in the Islamic World." Cheminements, pp. 269-288.

Dara Shekukh. Safinat al-auliia. ms. St. Petersburg, LO IVAN, S521. [IES-N.]

Dimashqiyah, ‘Abd al-Rahman. al-Naqshabandiyah: ‘ard wa-tahlil. Riyad: Dar Tibah, 1984.

_____. al-Naqshabandiyah: ‘ard wa-tahlil. 2nd ed. al-Qahirah: Maktabat Ibn Taymiyah, 1988.

Dovud, Muhammad. "Xoja Bahuddin Naqshbandii Mavalludining 675 iillighiga." Saodat 4-5 (April-May 1993): 2-4. [In Uzbek.]

al-Dzhili, ‘Abd al-Karim. Tarik al-irshad li-takmil al-mu’minin va-l-aba ‘il. Egypt. 1328 g.kh. [IES-N.]

Ertugrul, Mustafa. Bahddin Nakshibent. Istanbul, 1955.

Fletcher, Joseph F. Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia. Edited by Beatrice Forbes Manz. Aldershot, Great Britian: Variorum, 1995.

Fusfeld, W. "Naqshbandiyya Sufism and Reformist Islam." J. Asian and African Studies 18 (1983): 241-262. Also in Ibn Khaldun and Islamic Ideology, pp. 89-110. Edited by Bruce B. Lawrence. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984. [IU: DS1 .J86]

Gaborieau, Marc; Popovic, Alexandre and Zarcone, Thierry, eds. Naqshbandis: Cheminements et situation actuelle d’un ordre mystique musulman. Actes de la Table Ronde de Sèvres, 2-4 May 1985. Istanbul: Éditions ISIS, 1990. [UM/IU: BP189.7.N35 N36 1985. Cited in this bibliography as "Cheminements".]

Graham, Terry. "Shah Ni’matullah Wali: Founder of the Ni’matullahi Sufi Order." In The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism, pp. 173-190. Edited by Leonard Lewisohn. London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1992. [Article mentions Naqshbandiyya a lot.]

Habib, Madelain. "Some Notes on the Naqshbandi Order." Muslim World 59 (1969): 40-49.

Hourani, A. "Shaikh Khalid and the Naqshbandi Order." Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, pp. 89-103. Edited by S. M. Stern, Albert Hourani and Vivian Brown. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. [Grad. B740.I82]

Islomii, Hamidjon. Ipor hid ila tughilgan orif Xoja Bahouddin Naqshband. Toshkent: 1993. [From Naqsh/Nav, p. 6; placement tenetive.]

Jami, ‘Abd al-Rahman. The Nafahat al-Ons min Hadarat al-Qods, or the Lives of the Soofies by Mawlana Noor al-Din. Calcutta, 1859.

_____. Nafahât al-uns. Ed. Mahdî Tawhîdîpûr. Tehran: Kitabfurushi-i Mahmudi, 1337/1958. [DeWeese, "Uvaysi". Same as above, in persian.]

Kabbani, Shaykh Muhammad Hisham. The Naqshbandi Sufi way: history and guidebook of the saints of the Golden Chain. Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Chicago: Kazi Publications, 1995. [RLIN: 469 pp, illustr., biographies. Maps, biblio, indices.]

Khan, Sardar Ali Ahmad, ed. The Naqshbandis. Sharaqpur, Pakistan: Darul-Muballeghin Hazrat Mian Sahib, 1982. [UPenn. 182 pp. Biblio]

Khani, ‘Abd al-Majid ibn Muhammad. al-Hada’iq al-wardiyah fi haqa’iq ajilla’ al-Naqshabandiyah. Damascus: ‘Abd al-Wakil al-Durubi, 1306 [1890].

Köprülü, Mehmed Fuat. Influence du Chamanisme Turco-Mongol sur les Ordres Mystiques Musulmans. Istanbul: Imp. Zellitch Frères, 1929.

Lakhuri, Gulam Sarbar. Khazinat al-asfiia. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Kanpur, 1902. [IES-G. No UM]

Makhfiulkhairi, Khalid Amin. Silsilah-yi Khairiyah, ma’tazkirah-yi masha’ikh-i Naqshbandiyah. Lahore: Khvajah Abulkhair Akaidaimi, 1981. [Chicago research center. In Urdu. 400+ pp, handwritten. Biographies of Naqshbandi’s.]

Malamud, Margaret. "Sufi Organizations and Structures of Authority in Medieval Nishapur." J. Middle East Stud. (1994) 26, pp. 427-442.

Meier, Fritz. Zwei Abhandlungen über die Naqshbandiyya. Beiruter Texte und Studien, Band 58. Stuttgart and Istanbul: In Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. [UM. Review of the history of the order. Includes bibliography. DS 42.4 .B42 v.58]

Ochilov, È. "Naqshbandiimi Naqshband?" Özbekiston adabiëti va can"ati, 30 April 1993. [from Naqsh/Nav, p. 7]

Qayumov, Aziz. Bu ohang ila bilghasen Naqshband. Toshkent: 1993. [from Naqsh/Nav, p. 6; placement uncertain.]

Roseman, J. "Sufi Orders in Different Social Contexts: Comparative Observations -- notes from current research." Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo 5 (1984): 10-11.

Said, A. Fuad. Hakikat tarikat Naqsyabandiah. Jakarta: Pustaka Alhusna, 1994. [RLIN: 212 pp., biblio. Yale.]

Semenov, A. A. "Bukharskii sheikh Bakhaud-din. 1318-1389. (k ego biografii)." Vostochnyi sbornik v chest’ A. N. Veselovkogo, pp. 202-211. Moscow: 1914. [IES-N. No UM]

Shushud, Hasan Lutfi. Masters of Wisdom of Central Asia. Trans. Muhtar Holland. Ellingstring: Coombe Springs, 1983. [wants to be a trans. of the Rashahat.]

Snesarev, G. P. Khorezmskie legendy kak istochnik po istorii religioznykh kul’tov Srednei Azii. Moskow: Nauka, 1983. [UM: GR 300.S67; IU: BP188.8 .S652 K487 1983]

Viri, S. "Daughter of Fire by Irina Tweedie: Documentation and Esperiences of a Modern Naqshbandi Sufi." Women as Teachers and Disciples in Traditional and New Religions. Ed. E. Puttick and P. B. Clark. Lewiston, Queeston & Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.

Trimingam, Sufi Orders in Islam.

_____. Sufiiskie ordeny v islame. Trans. O. F. Akimushkin. Moscow: ???, 1989.

Usmon, Orif. Bahouddin Naqshband va uning ta"limoti haqida. Toshkent: 1993. [from Naqsh/Nav, p. 6; placement tenetive.]

Zarcone, T. "La Naqshbandiyya." Les Voies d’Allah: Les ordres mystiques dan l’islam des origines à aujourd’hui. Ed. A Popovic and G. Veinstein. Paris: Fayard, 1996. 479-483.

 

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Historiography, Catalogues

Algar, Hamid. "Bibliographical Notes on the Naqshbandi tariqat." Essays on Islamic Philosophy and Science, pp. 254-259. Edited by G. F. Hourani. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975. [IES-N. UM: B741.H85]

_____. "The Present State of Naqshband Studies." Cheminements, pp. 45-56.

Bobokhonov, Shamsuddin. Özbekistan F. A. Abu Paihon Berunii nomidagi Sharqshunoslik Instituti, Özbekistan Respublikasi Islom Hamkorlik Fondi. Naqshbandiiya tariqatiga oid qölëzmalar fihristi. Toshkent: "Movaraunnahr" Nashriëti, 1993. [IU: Z6616 .B237 B63 1993. From the archives in Tashkent, catalogue of books dealing with Naqshband/Naqshbandiyya. 127 pp. Entries in Uzbek instead of in Russian. Titles in Arabic alphabet like the original. No index, but an "explanation" in the back for some "sufi words and phrases" including their arabic-alphabet equivalents.]

DeWeese, Devin. An ‘Uvaysi Sufi in Timurid Mawaranahr: Notes on Hagiography and the Taxonomy of Sanctity in the Religious History of Central Asia. Papers on Inner Asia, no. 22. Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1993.

Farhadi, A.G. Rawan. "On Some Early Naqshbandî Major Works." Cheminements, pp. 63-68. [Not a good article.]

Mîrzâ Shâh-Mahmûd Çurâs. [17th c.] title??. [from Bregel/Storey, v.2, p. 1206, #1069. Descent from Makhdum-i A’zam noted, as well as author being Black Mtn Khoja. Lived in Kashghar. Work is a history?]

Muhammad Hakîm-khân b. Ma’sûm-hân. [b. 1802/3]. Muntahab at-tavârîkh. [from Bregel/Storey, v.2, p. 1189, #1054. Descent noted from Makhdum-i A’zam. Served as shaykh al-islam under Muh. ‘Umar-Khan (1810-22); this history written in Orenburg c. 1843. History from eastern Naqsh. source?]

Rose, H. A. "Some Problems in Naqshbandi History." Indiana Antiquary 52 (1923): 204-211. [From DeWeese biblio, not checked yet. Placement tenetive.]

Ruspoli, Stèphane. "Notice sur les manuscrits naqshbandi de ‘Fonds Molé’." Cheminements, pp. 57-62.

Tillabaev, R. A. "K voprosu ob ordene Naqshbandiia." In Iz Istorii Sufizma: Istochniki i Sotsial'naya Praktika, pp. 16-26. Edited by M. M. Khairullaev. Tashkent: Izdatel’stvo "FAN" Akademii Nauk Respubliki Uzbekistan, 1991. [IU: BP 188.5 .I9 1991. Source footnotes including those to original sources.]

 

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Literature, Theology and Religious Practices

Primary Sources

Abu al-Hasan Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad ‘Ali. Makâmât-i Shah-i Nakshband. Bukhara, 1327 [1909].

_____. Maqamat-i Khvajah-i Baha al-Din Naqshband. lithograph edition, Kalabad, 1328.

_____. Maqamat-i Khvajah-i Baha al-Din Naqshband. Toshkent: "Ëzuvchi" Nashriëti, 1993.

Khoja Ahrâr. Faqarat al-’ârifin. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #2355.

_____. Faqarat al-’ârifin. ms. Dushanbe, IV Taj., #4031/III, ff. 267b-320b.

_____. Majmû’ât-i Murâsalât. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #3735/II.

_____. Manokibi tazrati Eshon. ms. Dushanbe, IV Taj., #4125.

_____. Risâla-yi dhikr. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #5460.

_____. Risâla-yi walîdiya. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #526.

_____. Rukoati Khoja Ahrar. ms. Dushanbe, IV Taj., #146.

Shaykh Muhammad Murâd Bukhârî. Risâla-yi Unsîya. ms. Shehid Ali Pasha (Süleymaniye) 1386. [from Alger1. Persian?]

Dagistani, Shaikh ‘Abd Allah. The Naqshbandi Way: a guidebook for spiritual progress. The Spiritual Exercises of the Naqshbandi Sufi Path. Mersim: Sheikh Nazim, 1982.

Halit Ziyaeddin. Menakib-i sems us-sumus der hakk-i hazret-i mevlana Halit ul-Arus. Dersaadet [Istanbul]: Mahmut Bey Matbaasi, 1302 [1884 or 1885].

Hidayat ‘Ali Naqshbandi Mujaddidi Jaipuri, Muhammad. Mi'yarussuluk va dafi' al-auham va shakuk kitab-i haza bazaban-i Urdu basilsilah-i hazarat-i Naqshbandiyah Mujaddidiyah. Karaci: Eijukeshnal Press, 1900?

Nur ad-Din ar-Rahman ibn Ahmed Jami (1414-1492). [See individual biblio for list of published and manuscript works, as well as works about him and his work in a Sufi context.]

Amir Kulal. Durdona: Mir Kulol va Shohi Naqshband maqomotlaridan. Edited by Ne’mat Aminov. Trans. by Sadriddin Salim Bukhorii and Isroil Subhonii. Toshkent: "Sharq" Nashriët-matbaa kontsernining bosh tahririyati, 1993. [75 pp. In Uzbek. Silsila in back, short bio's going to M. Parsa. IU: BP 189.7 .N35 A45 1993.]

_____. Durdona: Mir Kulol va maqomot-i Shohi Naqshband. Tashkent, 1911.

_____. Maqomot-i Saiiid Amir Kulol. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #7222/II.

Manâqib-i Ahrâr. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #9730.

Makhdum-i A'zam. [Ahmad ibn Mavlânâ Jalâluddin Xojagii Kasani.] Bibliography of his works maintained separately.

Naqshbandi, Khalid. Tercume-yi Risale-yi Halidiye. Trans. Ahmad ibn ‘Ali. Ozege, ms. Eski harflerle, #20656.

_____. Naqshi az Mawlana Khalid Naqshbandi va payravan-i tariqat-i. Trans. and edited by Mahin’dukht Mu’tamidi. Tehran: Pazhang, 1368 [1989].

Naqshbandi, Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani. Mystical Secrets of the Last Days. Los Altos, CA: Haqqani Islamic Trust for New Muslim, 1994.

_____. The Divine Kingdom. Los Altos, CA: Haqqani Islamic Trust for New Muslim, 1994.

Parsa, Muhammad [Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Hafizii al-Bukhârii]. Risâlah-i Qudsiyyah. Edited and annotated by Malik Muhammad Iqbal. Rawalpindi, Pakistan: Iran Pakistan Institute of Persian Studies, 1975. [Same as Qudisya below, with different editor. Has more extensive indices. ILL U-Wisconsin. Includes large sheet of silsila. Calligraphy, in Persian. Hold. Copy also held in RIFIAS.]

_____. Qodsîyyah. Edited and annotated by Ahmad Tâhirî `Irâqî. Tehran, 1354 [1975]. [from Algar2. hold. Annotated, indices. Printed, in Persian.]

_____. Qodsiyyah. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #2517/VII [dtd. 1470], #2520/III [dtd. 1556], #503/II [dtd. 1657], #8183 [dtd. 1737], #890/I [dtd 1825].

_____. Anis am-malibin va `yddat as-salikin. ms. St. Petersburg GU, No. 386. [IES-N.]

_____. Fasl al-Khitâb. Trans. into Turkish as Tevhide Girish by Ali Hüsrevoglu, 1989. [No UM, from Algar 2. Asked Feyza about it 9/29/95.]

_____. Fasl al-Khitâb. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #1449/I [dtd. 1466], #1450 [dtd. 1618], #2238 [dtd. 1618], #584 [dtd. 17th c.].

_____. Maqâmât-i Khoja Bahâuddin Naqshband. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #2520/I [dtd 1568.].

_____. Risola-i kashfiya. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #8183/IV, ff 68a-85a [Dated 1737.]

_____. Risola-i kudsiyya. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #8183/IV, ff 86b-115a. [This is also in Iraqi’s edition of the Qodsiyyah.]

_____. Tahqiqât. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #1411 [dtd 1635].

_____. Tufat as-Sâlikîn. Delhi, 1390 [1970]. [From Algar3.]

Qozi, Muhammad [Muhammad ibn Burkhâniddin]. Silsilat-ul-orifin va tazkirat is-sidikin. ms. Dushanbe, A. Firdawsi Library, #1442.

al-Rashid, Muhammad Ma+mun. Naqsha-i Naqshband. Dacca, 1403 [1982-3].

Sirhindi, Ahmad. Ithbât al-nubuwwa. Haydarabad-Sind, 1383 AH.

_____. Maktubat Imam rabbani mujaddid alif sani: bhazrat Shaikh Ahmad Naqshbandi Sirhindi. 2 vols. Trans. and edited by Qazi ‘Alimuddin. Haidarabad, Pakistan: al-Lajnatah al-'Ilmiyah, 1971.

_____. Maktubat-i Imam Rabbani, Hazrat Mujaddid-i Alif-i Sani al-Shaykh Ahmad Sarhandi. 6 vols. Trans. and edited by Ghulam Mustafa Naqshbandi Mujaddadi. Lahore: Nur Kumpani, 1383 [1963].

_____. Ma’ârif laduniyya. ms. Rampur, 938.

al-SafÏ. [Va’iz, Fakhr ad-din ‘Ali b. Husain Kashifi.] Rashahat-i ’ayn al-hayat. Edited by ‘Alî Asghar Mu’înîân. Lakkhnau: Navalkishop, 1897.

_____. Rashakhat 'ain-khaiat. Laknou: 1905. [Lithograph, cite in Russian, article by é.é. Karimov.]

_____. Rashahat-i ‘ayn al-hayat. 2 vols. Tehran: Intisharat-i Bunyad-i Nikukari-i Nuriyani, 2536 [1977]. [Hold. RLIN: v.2 : facsim. SERIES: Silsilah-’i Intisharat-i Bunyad-i Nikukari-i Nuriyani; shumarah-’i musalsal 15. In Persian. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 767-771. UPenn. This text also cited as: Safî, Fakhr ad-Din ‘Alî. Rashahât ‘Ayn al-Heyât. Ed. ‘Alî Asghar Mu’înîân. 1977, from Algar2, UM. Also published in Tashkent, 1911, see Algar, 1976.]

_____. Rashhaotu-aiinul haët. Trans. Mahmud Hasanov. Fan va turmush zz (1991): xx-yy. [Partial translation. source of cite: SS Buxorii, "Dilda" 10-son.].

Tajlil, Jalil. Naqshband-i sukhan, ya, Majmu’ah-i maqalat-i adabi. Tehran: Nashr-i Ishraqiyah, 1368 [1989/90].

Ya’qûb Charkhî. Aqvoli Baho-ud-din. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #3424.

_____. Risâla fî ‘t-tarîqa an-Naqshbandîya. ms. Murat Bukhari (Süleymaniye) 206. [from Algar1.]

_____. Risola-i unsiiya. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #5825 [Dated 1806; there are 10 other copies of this text.]

_____. Risâlat-ul-mussamo bil-unsiya. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #5765.

_____. Silsila-i Naqshbandiya. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #3410/III, #9328/I, #12540/III. Others, from Karimov article, also Tashkent, 11, 260/IX, 6832, 10740, 12540/IV, 11235/II.

_____. Tafsir-i Ya'qub-i Charkhii. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #8745 [dtd. 1525], #5103 [dtd. 1554] #10792 [dtd. 1556], #5174 [dtd. 1575], #3832 [dtd. 1591], there are also 15 other copies of this text, down to the 19th century.

 

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Literature, Theology and Religious Practices

Secondary Sources, Before Twentieth Century

al-Bukhori, Salâh ibn Mubârâk. Min makomoti arjmand va makoloti sudmandi khazrati khoja-i Bahâ-ud-din-i Naqshband. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #P502/VI.

Dzhaferagich, Osman Shükrü. Risâla fî ‘t-Tarîqa an-Naqshbandîya. ms. Gazihusrevbegova (Sarajevo) 4447. [From Algar1. Given location, are there other copies of this ms, or is it now gone?]

Jamî, ‘Abd al-Rahman. Sar-rishta-i tarîq-i khwâjagan. Edited by ‘Abd al-Hayy Habîbî. Kabul, 1343 [1964].

Karamollazade, Abdulhamit. Adap uz-zakirin necat us-salikin. Istanbul, 1295 [1878].

Mustaqimzade, Suleyman Sadeddin. Tuhfet al-hattatin (Tuhfat al-khattatin). Ed. Ibnulemin Mahmud. Istanbul: Devlet Matbassi, 1928. [This is the Naqshbandi work Schimmel mentions about calligraphers. Hold.]

Naqd an-Nusûs fî Sharh Naqsh al-Fusûs. Edited by W. Chittick. Tehran, 1398/1977. [From Algar2. UM.]

an-Namangani, Ahmed ibn Sa’d ud-Din al-Uzgeni. Nazkiro-i Bogra Khan-i. ms. Tashkent Sharqshunosliq instituti, #2107. [Dated 1818.] [Probably "Tazkirâ-i Bôgra Khan-i."]

Nishapuri, Jalal al-din Abd al-Awwal. Majâlis-i ‘Ubaydallâh Ahrâr. ms. India Office, DP890.

Qazvînî, Muhammad b. Husayn. Silsilanâma-yi Khwâjagân-i Naqshband. ms. Lâleli 1381. [from Alger1.]

_____. Silsilanâma-yi Khwâjagan-i Naqshband. ms. Paris, Bib. Nat., #1418, ff 18a-21b.

_____. Silsilahâ-i tasavvuf. ms. Kabul, Nat. Arch., #(56/45)/17, ff 168a-182a.

Samarqandi, Burhan al-din. Silsilat al-’ârifÏn. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #4452/I.

Shihabuddin ibn banat Amir Hamza. Maqâmât Amir Kulâl. ms. Tashkent, Sharqshunosliq instituti, #2309. [Dated 1862.]

Vyatkin, V. L. "Sheikh Abu Yusuf Khamadanii." Turkestanskie Vedomosti. 1893, p. 679-?. [From Karimov article.]

_____. "O Khodzha Akhrare." Turkestanskie Vedomosti. 1898, No. 3, p. xx-yy. [From Karimov article, includes p. 10.]

_____. "Iz biografii Khodzha Akhrara." Turkestanskie Vedomosti. 1904, No. 1804, pp. xx-yy. [From Karimov article, includes p. 693.]

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Secondary Sources, Twentieth Century

Algar, Hamid. "Silent and vocal dhikr in the Naqshbandi order." Akten des VII Kongresses für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, pp. 39-46. Göttengen, 15-22 August 1974. Göttengen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1976. [cited as "Algar1". UM: AS 182.G54 ser.3 no.98]

_____. "Reflections of Ibn ‘Arabi in Early Naqshbandî Tradition." Journal of the Ibn `Arabi Society X (1991): 45-66. [cited as "Algar2".]

Beveridge, H. "The Rashahat-i ‘Ain al-Hayat (Tricklings from the Fountain of Life)." J. Royal Asiatic Society (1916): 59-75. [From DeWeese biblio. Not checked yet.]

Chodkiewicz, Michel. "Quelques aspects des techniques spirituelles dans la tarÏqa Naqshbandiyya." Cheminements, pp. 69-82.

_____. "Rites of Initiation in Sufi Orders." Trans. by Terry Graham. Sufi 26 (1995): 5-11. [Mostly popular, but talks about Naqsh. a lot.]

DeWeese, Devin. "The Mashâ’ikh-i Turk and the Khojagân: Rethinking the links between the Yasavî and the Naqshbandî Sufi Traditions." J. Islamic Studies 7/2 (July 1996): 180-207. [IU: DS35.3 .J68]

Fletcher, J. "The Naqshbandiyya and the Dhikr-i arra." J. Turkish Studies 1(1977): 113-119. [UM: DR 401-J86 Also published in his book. In China.]

Gross, Jo-Ann. "Multiple Roles and Perceptions of a Sufi Shaikh: Symbolic Statements of Political and Religious Authority." Cheminements, pp. 109-122.

ter Haar, Johan. "The Importance of the Spiritual Guide in the Naqshbandi Order." In The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism, pp. 311-322. Edited by Leonard Lewisohn. London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1992.

Meier, Fritz. Meister und Schüler im Orden der Naqshbandiyya: Vorgetragen am 10. Heidelberg: Universitötsverlag C. Winter, 1995. [IU: BP189.7.N35 M445 1995. 25 pp.]

Molé, Marijan. "Autour du Daré Mansour: l’apprentissage mystique de Baha’ al-Din Naqshband." Revue des Etudes Islamiques 27(1) (1959): 35-66.

_____, ed. "Quelques traités naqshbandis (naqshbandiyyat)." Farhang Irân Zamîn 7 (1959): 273-323. [translates 5 treatises; 1961 edition has another one.]

Olim, Sultonmurod. Naqshband va Navoii. Toshkent: "Ëqutuvchi," 1996. [214 pp., footnotes.]

Pulati, A È. and A. Khatipov. "O traktatakh Makhdumi A’zama (Predvaritel’noe soobshchenie." Voprosy istorii matemaiki astronomii 229 (1972): 19-24. [Hold. From Buhr? Description of a compilation of M-A, perhaps those in SVR III & IV, which is the only source they cite for "all 29" tracts. Most of the descriptions are extremely short. Order does not match 1443, but matches 501’s marginal roman numerals (e.g., skips X and XIV) in the first part, but adds some other tracts to the end. Perhaps another codex in Samarqand?]

Riyaz, Muhammad. Ahvâl va âsâr va ash’âr-i Mir Sayyid ‘Alî-i Hamadânî. Islamabad, 1364/1985. [UM. From Algar2]

Ruspoli, Stèphane. "Réflexions sur la voie spirituelle des Naqshbandî." Cheminements, pp. 95-108.

Shukur, Èshqobil. "Xoja Bahovuddin Naqshbandii." Saodat (July-August 1992): 1. photos inside front cover (color). [One page article on making a pilgrimage to the shrine.]

Sulton, Izzat, ed. Bahavuddin Naqshband adabiyati. (Naqshbandiya tariqatining zamonavii ahimiyati haqida tadqiqot.) Toshkent: Özbekiston Respublikasi FA "FAN" Nashriëti, 1994. [87 pp. Explanatory and source footnotes. In Uzbek. IU: BP 90 .B227 S84 1994. Source footnotes on pp. 8, 30, 75, 84. Amazingly knowledgeable for such a small book; seems to know well Navoii, Safi and the problems that one encounters comparing them. Lots of bows to Yasavi.]

Tasköprûzade. Ash-Shaqâ’iq an-Nu’mânîya. Beirut, 1395/1975. [From Algar2, ftn 12. This quotes a disciple of Naqshband.]

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Historically or geographically periodicized works, by region

Eurasia (includes China)

Akram, Botirkhon. "Hazrati Bahouddin va Navoii". In Ghoiiblar Xailidan Ëngan Chiroqlar, pp. 199-211. Edited by Zufarjon Jörarv. Tashkent: Özbekistan, 1994. [IU: BP 189.4 .G495 1994.]

Algar, Hamid. "Shaykh Zaynullah Rasulev: The Last Great Naqshbandi Shaykh of the Volga-Urals Region." In Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change, pp. 112-133. Edited by Jo-Ann Gross. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992.

Aubin, Françoise. "En Islam chinois: quels Naqshbandis?" Cheminements, pp. 491-574.

Babadzhanov, [Babajanov] Bakhtiyor M. "On the History of the Naqshbandiya Mujaddidya in Central Mawara’annahr in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries." In Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries, pp. 385-413. Edited by Michael Kemper, Anke von Kügelgen and Dmitruy Yermankov. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1996.

_____. "Zahîr al-Dîn Muhammad Mîrzâ Bâbur et les Shaykh Naqshbandî de Transoxiane." Trans. Th. Zarcone. In Inde-Asie Centrale: Routes de commerce et des indées. Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, No. 1-2. Tashkent / Aix en-Provence, 1996. 219-26.

Bennigsen, Alexandre and Lemercier-Quelquejay, Chantal. "‘L’Islam Parallèle’ en Union SoviÊtique: Les Organisations Soufies dans la République Tchètchéno-Ingouche." Cahiers du Monde Russe et Soviétique 21 (1980): 49-63.

_____. "Lieux Saints et Sufisme au Caucase." Turcica 15 (1983): 179-99.

_____. "Brèves remarques sur la Naqshbandiyya en Union Soviètique." Cheminements, pp. 441-446.

Boldyrev, A. N. "Eshchë raz k voprosy o khodzha-Akhrare." In Dukhovenstvo i politicheskaya zhizn na blizhnem i srednem vostoke v periode feodalizma, pp. 47-63. Moscow: Izdatdel’stvo Nauk, Glavnaya redaktsiya vostochnoi literatury, 1985.

Bukhorii, Sadriddin Salim, ed. Bahouddin Naqshband ëki etti pir. Toshkent: "Ëzuvchi" Nashriëti, 1993. [16 pp. In Uzbek. Brief information about the tariqa and some of its major pirs. No references. UM: BP 80 .B16 B85 1993; no IU]

_____, ed. Dilda Ër (Hazrat Bahouddin Naqshband). Toshkent: Ghafur Ghulom nomidagi Adabiët va San"at Nashriëti, 1993. [77 pp. ToC. In Uzbek. Explanatory footnotes. Selections from various Hikoyatlar. Silsila, short bio's in the back going to 16th c. Internal citations to sources of directly quoted material. Some Persian poetry (in cyrillic) translated into Uzbek. IU: BP 80 .B227 B857 1993. No UM.

works mentioned by name internally:

Castagné, Joseph. "Le culte des lieux saint de l’Islam au Turkestan." L’Ethnographie NS 46, 1951. [from Meier biblio]

Chekhovich, O. D., ed. Bukharskie Dokumenty XIV v. Tashkent: Izdatel’stvo "Nauk" Uzbekskoi SSR, 1965. [RIFIAS, DK871.C5. 211 pp, printed Persian and Russian. Index, biblio, plates of Persian texts. Most of the contents concern a vakf of Saifiddin Bakharzi (14th c.); one entry is by Dehbedi (1879), when he was writing a vakf-nama, and said he was a descendant of Bakharzi. (p. 211)]

_____. Samarkandskie dokumenty XV-XVI vv. (O vladennyakh Khadzhi Akhrara v Srednei Azii i Afganistane). Moscow: NNN, 1974.

_____. "O sotsial’noi roli i politicheskoi deyatel’nosti Khodzhi Akhrara." Bartol’dovskie chteniya, 1982. God Shestoi, Tezisy dokladov i soobshchenii. Moscow: NNN, 1982, pp. xx-yy. [cite from Karimov article, includes page 71.]

Demedov, S. M. Sufizm v Turkmenii (evolyutsiya i perezhitki). Ashkabad, 1978.

DeWeese, Devin. "The Eclipse of the Kubraviyah in Central Asia." Iranian Studies XXI(1-2) (1988): 45-83.

_____. "Sayyid ‘Ali Hamadani and Kubrawi Hagiographical Traditions." In The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism, pp. 121-158. Edited by Leonard Lewisohn. London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1992.

Fletcher, Joseph. "Central Asian Sufism and Ma Ming-hsin’s New Teaching." Proceedings of the Fourth East Asian Altaistic Conference, pp. 75-96. Edited by Ch’en Chieh-hsien. Taipei: National Taiwan University, 1975. [In book. 18th century.]

_____. "Confrontations between Muslim missionaries and nomad unbelievers in the late sixteenth century: Notes on four passages from the ‘Diya’ al-qulub’". Tractata Altaic, pp. 167-174. Edited by W. Heissig. Weisbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1976. [Not much on Naqsh.]

_____. "The Taylor-Pickens Letters on the Jahri Branch of the Naqshbandiyya in China." Central & Inner Asian Studies 3 (1989): 1-35.

_____. "The Naqshbandiyya in northwest China." Edited by Jonathan N. Lipman. In Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia. Edited by Beatrice Forbes Manz. Aldershot, Great Britian: Variorum, 1995, pp. 1-46.

Gafurdzhanova, T. "Obshchestvenno-politicheskaya, kul’turnaya i literaturnaya zhizn’ Srednei Azii v XIII-XIV vv." In Istoriiya Uzbekskoi Literatury, pp. 103-137. Edited by A. Kh. Khayitmetov and Z. S. Kedina. Tashkent, 1987. [From Algar2. UM holds.]

Ghozii, Ilëskhon. "Naqshbandiya tariqatining buyuk siimosi -- Maxdumi A’zam." In Ghoiiblar Khailidan Ëngan Chiroqlar, pp. 264-278. Edited by Zufarjon Jörarv. Tashkent: Özbekistan, 1994. [IU: BP 189.4 .G495 1994.]

Gordlevskii, V.A. "Bakhauddin Nakshband Bukharskii." Izbrannye sochineniya. v.3, pp. 369-386. Moscow, 1962. [IES-N. UM holds: DS 155.G66 1960 v1-4. Originally published 1934.]

Gross, Jo-Ann. Khojar Ahrar: A Study of the Perceptions of Religious Power and Prestige in the Late Timurid Period. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1982.

_____. "The Economic Status of a Timurid Sufi Shaykh: A Problem of Conflict or Perception." Journal of Iranian Studies 21 (1988): 84-104.

_____. "Authority and Miraculous Behavior: Reflections on Karamat Stories of Khwaja ‘Ubaydullah Ahrar." In The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism, pp. 159-172. Edited by Leonard Lewisohn. London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1992.

Haidar, Muhammad. Ta’rikh-i Rashidi. Trans. E. D. Ross. London, 1895. [Trimingham (p. 237) cites p. 113, 97 as discussing the mediating influence of Shaikh "al-Ahrar". See also H. Beveridge, "The Rashahat-i ‘Ain al-Hayat", JRAS, 1916, pp. 59-75 for a discussion.]

Haiit, Tölqin. "Ulughbekning öldirilishida Khöja Ahrarning qöli bormi?" In Ghoiiblar Xailidan Ëngan Chiroqlar, pp. 242-252. Edited by Zufarjon Jörarv. Tashkent: Özbekistan, 1994. [IU: BP 189.4 .G495 1994.]

Halbach, Uwe. "‘Holy War" against Czarism: The Links between Sufism and Jihad in the Nineteenth Century Anticolonial Resistance Movement against Russia." In Muslim Communities Reemerge: Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, pp. 251-276. Edited by (German edition) Andreas Kappeler, Gerhard Simon and Georg Brunner; (English edition) Edward Allworth. Trans. by Caroline Sawyer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.

Hamada, Masami. "De l’autorité religieuse au pouvoir politique: la révolte de Kûca et Khwâja Râshidîn." Cheminements, pp. 455-490.

Israeli, Raphael. "The Naqshbandiyya and Factionalism in Chinese Islam." Cheminements, pp. 575-588.

Jersild, Austin Lee. "Who was Shamil?: Russian colonial rule and Sufi Islam in the North Caucasus, 1859-1917." Central Asian Survey 14(2) (1995): 205-223. [CAS has several other articles on Shamil that I did not copy but which I might want to look at later.]

Jalilov, Saifiddin. "Khöja Ahror Valii." Fan va Turmush 7 (1990): 26-30.

Karimov, é. é. "K kharakteristike sufiiskogo bratstva naqshbandiia v Srednei Azii XIV-XV vekov." Obshchestvennye nauki v Uzbekistane. (Tashkent) No. 8 (1989), pp. xx-yy. [from another Karimov article, includes p. 47.]

_____. "‘Rashakhot ‘Ayn al-khaiat’ kak istochnik po izucheniiu istorii Maverannakhra XV veka." Obshchestvennye nauki v Uzbekistane 1 (1990): 46-50. [from DeWeese biblio, 1995.]

_____. "Nekotorye aspekty politicheskoi i religiozno-filosofskoi praktiki tarikata Nakshbandiia v Maverannaxpe XV v." In Iz Istorii Sufizma: Istochniki i Sotsial'naya Praktika, pp. 74-87. Edited by M. M. Khairullaev. Tashkent: Izdatel’stvo "FAN" Akademii Nauk Respubliki Uzbekistan, 1991. [IU: BP188.5 .I9 1991. Source footnotes, (entered). Uses Trimingham (in Russian) heavily.]

Manz, Beatrice Forbes. "Central Asian Uprisings in the Nineteenth Century: Ferghana under the Russians." Russian Review ??(>1988): xx-yy.

McChesney, R. D. Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

_____. "Some Observations on Gardens and its [sic.] Meanings in the Property Transactions of the Juibari Family in Bukhara, 1544-77." In Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires, Theory and Design. Suppl. to the Muqarnas, An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, Vol. 7. Ed. Attilio Petruccioli. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997. pp. xx-yy.

Mukhammedkhodzhaev, A. [Muhammedkhojaev] Ideologiya Naqshbandizma. Dushanbe: Donish, 1991.

Nekrasova, Yelizaveta. "The Burial Structure at the Chor-Bakr Necropolis near Bukhara from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries." Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia from the 18th t the Early 20th Centuries. Ed. Michael Kemper, Anke von Kügelgen, and Dmitriy Yermakov. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1996. 369-384a. [Includes illustrations. Talks about Juibari sheikhs.]

Œuvres philosophiques et mystiques de Shihabaddin Yahya Sohrawardi (Opera metaphysica et mystica II). Bibiothèque Iranienne 2, Teheran-Paris, 1964. [from Meier biblio]

Olim, Sultonmurod. "Uch buyuk tariqat." In Ghoiiblar Xailidan Ëngan Chiroqlar, pp. 90-124. Edited by Zufarjon Jörarv. Tashkent: Özbekistan, 1994. [IU: BP 189.4 .G495 1994. Yasaviyya, Naqshbandiyya, Kubrviyya.]

Oriental Miniatures of Abu Raihon Beruni Institute of Orientology of the UzSSR, Academy of Sciences. Tashkent: Gufur Gulyam Literature and Art Publishing House, 1980. [Miniatures from several different genres from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries published in full color with descriptions in Uzbek, Russian and English. Some are unfortunately excised from the context of the material text, however, this is a rare, beautifully published edition of some of the Sharqshunoslik collection. Citation in Uzbek: Sharq Miniatyurasi. Uzbekistan SSR Fanlar akademiyasi Abu Raihon Berunii nomidagi Sharqshunoslik instituti. Toshkent: Gafur Gulom nomidagi Adabiët va san"at nashriëti, 1980. See plates 65-67 for a source on Naqshbandis of the 18th century in Kashghar. IU: ND 3241.A28 1980]

Paul, Jürgen. Die politische und soziale Bedeutung der Naqshbandiyya in Mittelasien im 15 Jahrhundert. Studien Zur Sprache, Geschechte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients, Band 13. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. [Extensive biblio, index.]

_____. "Forming a Faction: The Himâyat System of Khoja Ahrar." Int. J. Middle East Studies 23 (1991): 533-548.

_____. "Les confrèries soufies, mystique et économie." Samarcande 1400-1500: la cité-oasis de Tamerlan: coeur d’un empire et d’une renaissance. Ed. V. Fourniau. Paris: Autrement, 1995. 150-160.

_____. Samarkandskie dokumenty XV-XVI vv. (o vladeniiakh Khodzhi Akhrara v Srednei Azii I Afghanistane. Moscow: Nauka, 1974.

_____. "Influences indiennes sur la naqshbandiyyad’Asie centrale?" In Inde-Asie Centrale: Routes de commerce et des indées. Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, No. 1-2. Tashkent / Aix en-Provence, 1996. 203-17.

Rizvi, Saiyid Athar Abbas. Muslim revivalist movement in Northern India. Agra, 1965. [IES-N, UM: BP63 .I4 R63]

Roy, Olivier. "La Naqshbandiyya en Afghanistan." Cheminements, pp. 447-454.

Rywkin, Michael. "The Communist Party and the Sufi Tariqat in the Checheno-Ingush Republic." Central Asian Survey 10(1/2) (1991): 133-145.

Semenov, A. A. "Rasskaz shugnanskikh ismailitov o bukharskom sheikh Bekhâ-ud-Dîne." Zapiski Vostochnogo otdeleniia Russkogo arkheologicheskogo Obshchestva 22 (1913-14): 321-326. [From DeWeese biblio, 1995, not checked yet. Placement tenetive.]

_____. "Dva avtografa Khozhi Akhrar." Epigrafika Vostoka 5 (1951): 51-57. [From DeWeese biblio, 1995, not checked yet. Placement tenetive.]

Shaw, Robert Barkley. History of the Khojas of Eastern Turkistan summarized from the Tazkira-i-khwajagan of Muhammad Sadiq Kashgari. Edited with intro. by Ney Elias. Calcutta: Asiatic Society, 1897.

Sukhareva, O. A. "Potomki Khozha Akhrar." In Dukhovenstvo i politicheskaia zhizn’ na Blishnem i Srednem Vostoka v periode feodalizma, pp. 115-205. vyp. 7. Moscow, 1963.

Viatkin, V. "Iz biografii Khodzhi [sic] Akhrara." Turkestanskie Vedomosti 147 (1904).

Zarcone, Thierry. "Le mausolée de Baha al-Din Nakshband à Bukhara (Uzbekistan)." J. Turkish Studies 19 (1995): 231-244.

_____. "Une route de sainteté islamique entre l’Asie centrale et l’Inde: la voie Ush-Kashghar-Srinagar." In Inde-Asie Centrale: Routes de commerce et des indées. Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, No. 1-2. Tashkent / Aix en-Provence, 1996. 227-54. [Rifias. Hold]

Zohidov, P. Khoja Bahouddin Naqshband Me"morii Hazira. [no pub info, 1993]. [IU: BP 80 .B227 Z648 1993. 16 pp. Unreferenced guide to Naqsh's tomb, including measurements. Artist's drawing. In Uzbek. Gives dates and measurements for some other buildings, probably connected to the site as well. See Naqsh/Nav, p. 6; published in Tashkent.] 

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Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

(see also Balkans, Middle East)

Abu-Manneh, Butrus. "The Naqshbandiyyah-Mujaddidiyya in the Ottoman Lands in the Early 19th Century." Welt des Islams 22 (1982): 1-36. [UM: DS6.w46]

_____. "Khalwa and râbita in the Khâlidi Suborder." Cheminements, pp. 289-302.

Algar, Hamid. "Devotional Practices of the Khalidi Naqshbandis of Ottoman Turkey." In The Dervish Lodge, Architecture, Art and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey, pp. 209-227. Edited by Raymond Lifchez. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Blau, Joyce. "Le rôle des cheikhs Nashbandî dans le mouvement national kurde." Cheminements, pp. 371-378.

van Bruinessen, Martin. "The Naqshbandî Order in the 17th Century Kurdistan." Cheminements, pp. 337-360.

Gal_p, Semra. "Un gourou naqshbenddi: Sheyh Nazim Kibrisî." Cheminements, pp. 437-440.

Gökalp, Altan. "Les fruits de l’arbre plutôt que ses racines: le Suleymanisme." Cheminements, pp. 421-436.

Hakim, Halkawt. La confrèrie des Naqshbandis au Kurdistan au XIXe siècle. Ph.D. dissertation, Paris, 1983.

_____. "Mawlânâ Khâlid et les pouvoirs." Cheminements, pp. 361-370.

Ildirar, Mehmed. Seyyid Abdulhakim Huseyni ve Naksibendi tarikati. Istanbul: Rehber Yayincilik, 1986.

Kara, Mustafa. "Nolla Ilâhî: un précurseur de la Naqshbandiye en Anatolie." Cheminements, pp. 303-330.

Kreiser, Klaus. "Kâshgarî Tekyesi - ein Istanbuler Naqshibendiye-Konvent und sein Stifter." Cheminements, pp. 331-336.

Kufrali, Kasim. "Molla Ilâhî ve kendisinden sonraki Nakshbendîya muhiti." Türk Dili ve Edebiyati Dergisi 3 (1949): 129-151. [from DeWeese biblio, 1995. Not checked. Placement here tenetive.]

Le Gall, Dina. The Ottoman Naqshbandiyya in the Pre-Mujaddidi Phase: A Study in Islamic Religious Culture and its Transmission. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1992. [ILL Princeton, original, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, hold. About 250 pp. Beautifully done. 16-18th centuries.]

_____. "Missionaries, pilgrims and refugees: the early transmission of the Naqshbandiyya to the Ottoman lands." In Modes de transmission de la culture religieuse en Islam, pp. 225-240. Edited by Hassan Elboudrari. ??: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire, 1993. [from Meier biblio]

Olson, Robert W. "The International Consequences of Sheik Sait Rebellion." Cheminements, pp. 379-406.

Togan, Zeki Velidi. "Gazan-Han Jalil ve Hoca Bahaeddin Nakshbend." [in Persian] In Necati Lugal Armagani, pp. 775-784. Ankara: TTK Basimevi, 1968. [from DeWeese biblio, 1995. Not checked. Placement here tenetive.]

Zarcone, Thierry. "Remarques sur le rôle socio-politique et la filiation historique des sheyh nakshbendî dans la Turquie contemporaine." Cheminements, pp. 407-420.

_____. "Les Nakshbendî et la république turque: de la persécution au repositionnement théologique, politique et social (1925-1991)." Turcica XXIV (1992): 133-151.

 

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India and Southeast Asia

Adams, Charles J. "The Naqshbandîs of India and the Pakistan Movement." Cheminements, pp. 221-230.

Alhaq, Shuja. "Ahmad Sirhindi: A Cleric in Sufi Clothing." Sufi 26 (1995): 22-26. [Popular]

Beisembiev, T.K. "Ferghana’s Contacts with India in the 18th and 19th Centuries (according to the Khokand Chronicles)." J. Asian History 28(2) (1994): 124-135.

Beuhler, Arther F. "Naqshbandi Spiritual Authority, the Panjab, 1857-1947." Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, November 23, 1992. [Hold a draft copy, permission needed to cite.]

Buehler, Arthur Frank. Charisma and Exemplar: Naqshbandi Spiritual Authority in the Panjab, 1857-1947. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1993. [I hold a 55p. draft copy.]

_____. "The Naqshbandiyah-Mujaddidiyah and its rise to prominence in India." Bulletin of the Henry Maryton Institute of Islamic Studies 13 (iii-iv) (1994): 44-61.

_____. "The Naqshbandiyya in Timurid India: The Central Asian Legacy." J. Islamic Studies 7 (ii) (1996): 208-28.

van Bruinessen, Martin. "The Origins and Development of the Naqshbandi Order in Indonesia." Der Islam 67 (1990): 150-179.

Coslovi, Fr. "Osservazion sul ruolo di ‘Sah Waliullah Dihalawi’ e ‘Sah ‘Abd al-Aziz’ nella ‘Naqshbandiyya’ indiana." Annali Instituto Orientale di Napoli 29(1979): 72-84. [UM 820.6 N22]

Damrel, David William. Forgotten Grace: Khwaja Khawand Mahmud Naqshbandi in Central Asia and Mughul India. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 1991. [ILL Duke. Done under the dept. of Religion. 290 pp., 21 pp. biblio. Sources depend almost entirely on English, but seems to be a good synthesis nonetheless.]

Digby, Simon. "The Naqshbandîs in the Deccan in the late Seventeenth Century and early Eighteenth Century A.D.: Bâbâ Palangposh, Bâbâ Musâfir and their Adherents." Cheminements, pp. 167-208.

Foltz, R. "The Central Asian Naqshbandi connections of the Mughal Emperors." J. Islamic Studies 7 (ii) (1996): 229-239.

Friedmann, Yohanan. Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi, an outline of his thought and a study of his image in the eyes of posterity. Montreal: McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies, 1971.

_____. "The NaqshbandÏs and Awrangzêb: a Reconsideration." Cheminements, pp. 209-220.

Fusfeld, W. The Shaping of Sufi Leadership in Delhi: The Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya 1750-1920. PhD Dissertation, U. Pennsylvania, 1981.

Gaborieau, Marc. "Les Protestations d’un soufi indien contemporain contre trois interprètations récentes de Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindî." Cheminements, pp. 237-268.

ter Haar, Johan G. J. "The Naqshbandî Tradition in the Eyes of Ahmad Sirhindî." Cheminements, pp. 83-94.

_____. Follower and Heir of the Prophet: Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624) as a Mystic. Leiden: Het Oosters Instituut, 1992. [Grad BP 80 .A5124 H33 1992]

_____. "The collected letters of Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi." Manuscripts of the Middle East 3 (1988): 41-44. [Goes into detail about the transmission of letters and editions of Sirhindi.]

Hasan, Afrogh. Silsilah-yi ‘aliyah Naqshbandiyyah, ruhaniyyat ka gulzar-i kahkashan: Hazrat Khvajah Baqibillah. Lahore: Maktabah-yi Urdu Da'ijist, [1992]. [RLIN: in Urdu, 288 pp. UC Berkeley, UPenn.]

Khan, Ghulam Mustafa. "The Naqshbandi Saints of Sind." J. Research Society of Pakistan (1976): 19-47.

Kraus, Werner. "Some Notes on the Introduction of the Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya into Indonesia." Cheminements, pp. 691-706.

Lombard, Denys. "Tarekat et entreprise à Sumatra: l’exemple de Shyekh Abdul Wahab Rokan (c. 1830-1926)." Cheminements, pp. 707-716.

Madni, Sayyid Husain Ahmad. Salasil-i tayyibah: jis men shajarat-i Cishtiyah, Sabiriyah, Nizamiyah o Naqshbandiyah o Qadiriyah o Suhravardiyah. Harnuli (Miyanvali): Maktabah-yi Khuddam-i Ahlulsunnat valjum’at, 1975.

Malik, Fateh Mohammad. "Naqshbandiyya and Ideology of Muslim Nationalism." Cheminements, pp. 231-236.

Moinul Haq, S. "Rise of the Naqshbandi and Qadiri silsilahs in the Subcontinent, with special reference to their efforts to restore the supremacy of the Shariah." J. Pakistan Historical Society 25(1977): 1-33. [Grad. DS 376.P137]

Nizami, K.A. "Naqshbandi influence on Mughal rulers and politics." Islamic Culture 39(1965): 41-52. [Grad]

Qasuri, Muhammad Sadiq. Tazkirah-yi Naqshbandiyyah Khairiyyah. Lahore: Ziya’ulqur’an Pablikeshanz, 1988.

Raf’at, Sayyid Mubarizuddin. Pan Cakki-yi Aurangabad: ya’ni, Hazrat Baba Shah Muhammad Sa’id Palangposh Naqshbandi aur Hazrat Muhammad ‘Ashur Baba Shah Musafir ke tafsili halat, nahr-i Pan Cakki aur Pan Cakki ki ‘imarat ki tarikh jo mustanad makhizon se likhi ga'i hai. Haidarabad: Matba' ‘Ibrahimiyah, 1956.

Rizvi, S.A.A. "Sixteenth Century Naqshbandiyya Leadership in India." Cheminements, pp. 153-166.

Tavakkali, Nur Bakhsh. Tazkirah-yi masha'ikh-i Naqshbandiyah: silsilah-yi Naqshbandiyah ke buzurgon ka mustanad tazkirah. Lahore: Nuri Buk Dipo, 1976.

Umar, Muhammad. Islam in Northern India During the Eighteenth Century. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisher, 1993. [Grad BP 63.I4 U631 1993. One chapter on Sufism, lots on the Naqshbandis with some discussion on interactions with Bukhara. Heavily footnoted.]

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Balkans

Algar, Hamid. "Some Notes on the Naqshbandi Tariqat in Bosnia." Die Welt des Islams. 13(3-4) (1971): 168-203. [hold.]

Chehajich, Dzhemal. "Socio-Political Aspects of the Naqshbandi Dervish Order in Bosnia and Herzegovenia and Yugoslavia Generally." Cheminements, pp. 663-668.

Norris, H. T. Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society between Europe and the Arab World. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. [Section on the Naqshbandiyya with reference to its connections with 18th century modernizing and reform movements. British author.]

Popovic, Alexandre. "The Contemporary situation of the Muslim mystic orders in Yugoslavia." In Islamic dilemmas: reformers, nationalists, industrialization: The southern shore of the Mediterranean, pp. 240-254. Edited by Ernest Gellner. Berlin: Mouton Publishers, 1985. [IES-N. UM.]

_____. "Quelques remarques sur les Naqshbandis dans le sud-est europen (période post-ottomane)." Cheminements, pp. 657-662.

Shamich, Jasna. "Les Naqshbandî de Bosnie (plus particulièrement ceux de Visoko) et leurs relations avec d’autres ordres soufis." Cheminements, pp. 681-690.

Simac, R. "In a Naqshbandi Circle." Hibbert Journal 65(1966-67): 104-106. [Buhr BR1.H62]

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Middle East

(see also Ottoman Turkey)

Abu-Manneh, Butrus. "Shaikh Ahmad Ziya al-Din al-Gümüshhanevi and the Kahlidi Suborder: abstract of part of a more extensive research study on the Naqshbandiyya suborder." Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo 6(1985): 2-3.

De Jong, Fred. "The Naqshbandiyya in Egypt and Syria. Aspects of its History, and Observations concerning its Present-day Condition." Cheminements, pp. 589-602.

de Jong, Frederick and Jan Just Witkam. "The library of al-Shaykh Khalid al-Shahrazuri al-Naqshbandi (d. 1242/1827). A facsimile of the inventory of his library. (ms. Damascus, Maktabat al-Asad, No. 259)." Manuscripts of the Middle East 2 (1987): 68-87. [The books listed in the inventory are now dispersed, but the collection was presented as a waqf and subjected to court proceedings. The facsimile (pp. 74-87) permits an examination the holdings.]

Grandin, Nicole. "À propos des asânîd de la Naqshbandiyya dans les fondements de la Khatmiyya de Soudan oriental: stratégies de pouvoir et relation maître/disciple." Cheminements, pp. 621-656.

Habibis, Dalphne. "Mahdism in a Branch of a Contemporary Naqshbandî Order in Lebanon." Cheminements, pp. 603-620.

Madelung, Wilferd. "Yûsuf al-Hamadânî and the Naqshbandiyya." Quaderni di Studi Arabi 5-6 (1987-88): 499-509.

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Other

Petrushevsky, I. P. Islam in Iran. Trans. of Islam v Irane v VII-XV vv. (kurs lektsii). Originally published Leningrad, 1966. [EIS-N. UM: english: BP63 .I68 P413 1985. Russian is in Buhr.]

Storey, Ch. A. Persian Literature: A bio-bibliographical survey. London: 1927-1973. [IES-G. UM: Z7085.S88]

Various articles in EI2, The Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam (Gibb & Kramers), and The Encyclopedia of Religion (Eliade).

EI2?"Naqshband," v. VII, p. 933-934, by H. Algar.

"Naqshbandiyya," v. VII, p. 934-939, by H. Algar and K.A. Nizami.

Islam : entsiklopedicheskii slovar'. Moskva: "Nauka," Glavnaya redaksiya vostochnoi literatury, 1991. [UM: BP 40 .I8341 1991; IU: BP40 .I83 1991]

IES-G: Article for Gudguvani

IES-N: Article for Naqshband

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