Author: Bebitov, Maqsud Abdirasulovich

Annotation: The Naqshbandi sect, a continuation of the Hajj sect of Sufism founded by Yusuf Hamadani in Merv in the 12th century, spread in Turkestan during the reign of Bahauddin Naqshbandi and later spread to India, the Middle East, and even China and Indonesia. He entered Anatolia in the 16th century. However, his fruitful activity in Anatolia was associated with Abdullah Ilahi and Amir Ahmad Bukhari in the late 15th century. After the Naqshbandis consolidated their position in Istanbul in the early 16th century, they began to spread throughout the Ottoman Empire, spreading taqiyya to pilgrims from Turkestan, India, and the Far East. These dervish takiyas are called names that reflect the origin or identity of dervishes, such as the Bukhara Takiya, the Uzbek and Turkic Takiyas, and the Hindu Takiyas. The first Naqshbandis to come to Anatolia were Ubaydullah Ahror, a member of the Ahroriya branch of the Naqshbandi sect. In the following centuries, representatives of the Kasani, Urmavi, Mujaddadi, Muradi, Kuriani and Khalidi branches of the Naqshbandi sect followed. In particular, in the 18th century, with the advent of the Mujaddids and the 19th Khalids, the Naqshbandi sect spread rapidly in the Ottoman state and became one of the largest sects in the Ottoman Empire.

Keywords: Takiya, Turkestan, Naqshibandi, Tariqat, Sofi Antioch, Anatolia, Hajj, sheikh, dervish, murshid.