Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu

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Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu
Born1929 (1929)
Ṭarīqah
Awards
  1. 35 The Muslim 500 most influential

Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu (1927 – 23 June 2022), usually referred to as Mahmut

Çarşamba, Istanbul
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Early life

Ustaosmanoğlu was born in a village imam in Miço (now Tavşanlı) village of the Of district. He became a hafiz under his father by the age of 6 and continued his madrasa education, gaining his ijazah by the age of 16. Afterward 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 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 path (tariqa). In 1996, he retired as the imam of the İsmailağa Musjid.[2]

Later life

Ustaosmanoğlu tried to keep a low profile in the following years, especially after the

1997 memorandum, but his relations came under the 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.[3][4][5]

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was known to maintain close relations with Ustaosmanoğlu.[6] Erdoğan paid a highly publicised visit to Ustaosmanoğlu the night before the presidential election in 2014.[7]

Ustaosmanoğlu passed away on 23 June 2022, after two weeks of hospitalization for an infection.[8]

Khalid’îyyah, İsmailağa jamia and tarīqah 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 Abi 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 186 AH

(804 C.E)

15
Shaban
261 AH

(24/25 May 875 C.E)

7
Abul-Hassan Kharaqani
Kharaqan, near 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
Abu Yaqub Yusuf Hamadānī
Marv, near Mary, Turkmenistan 440 AH

(1048/1049 C.E)

Rajab 535 AH

(Feb/Mar 1141 C.E)

10
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)

11
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.)

12
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)

13
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)

14
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)

15 Saukhaar, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 676 AH

(1277/1278 C.E)

Wed 2 Jumada al-Thani 772 AH

(21/22 December 1370 C.E)

16
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)

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

(23 February 1402 C.E)

18
Khwaja
Yaqub Charkhi
Gulistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan 762 AH

(1360/1361 C.E)

5 Safar 851 AH

(21/22 April 1447 C.E)

19
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)

20
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)

21
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)

22
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)

23 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)

24 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)

25 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)

26
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)

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

(12/13 August 1723 C.E)

28 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)

29
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)

30
Muhammad Khâlid-i Baghdâdî
Damascus, Syria Sharazur, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq (1779 C.E)

(1827 C.E)

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

?

?

32
Shaykh
Mustafa İsmet Garibu'l-Lâh,

alias Grand Sheikh Affandy

Çarşamba, Fatih-Istanbul
, Turkey]
Ioannina, Ottoman Empire

1289 AH

33
Khwaja
Khâlil-i Nûr-u Allah Zaghrawi
Zara, Sivas, Ottoman Empire
34
Affandy
Tekke Camii, Bandırma, Balıkesir Province-Ottoman Empire Bulgaria 1330 AH
35
Affandy
Akhaltsikhe, Batumi-Ottoman Empire 1288 AH
36
Khwaja
Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu
Tavşanlı, Of Trabzon, Turkey (1929 C.E) 24 Dhu al-Qadah 1443 AH (23 June 2022 C.E.)
Fatih-Istanbul, Turkey
37 Hasan Kılıç, also known as Hasan Efendi was announced as the successor to sheikh Mahmud Efendi during his janaza by his son.

References

  1. ^ "biyografi.net: Mahmut Ustaosmanoðlu biyografisi burada ünlülerin biyografileri burada". www.biyografi.net.
  2. ^ a b "Mahmut Efendi Hazretleri k.s."
  3. ^ Ahmet Şık, Niyazi Dalyancı, habervesaire.com, 18 February 2010, Warfare between judiciary and government Archived 2014-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Today's Zaman, 5 March 2012, No progress in imam Bayram Ali Öztürk’s murder case in five years
  5. ^ Today's Zaman, 28 April 2013, Cihaner may tell commission about how he wiretapped PM Archived 2014-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ ÖZKAYA/İSTANBUL, Sefa. "Erdoğan'dan Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu'na sürpriz ziyaret". www.hurriyet.com.tr.
  7. ^ "İsmailağa Cemaati lideri Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu öldü" (in Turkish). 23 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Faiz Naqshband (Urdu Translation): Malfuzat of Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi, p.46".
  9. ^ "Faiz Naqshband (Urdu Translation): Malfuzat of Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi, p.325".