The Jerrahi Order or Jerrahiyya ( tr, Cerrahiyye, Cerrahilik) is a Sufi order that originated in 18th century

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and descended from the charismatic Halveti Order of 14th century

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. Their founding saint i
Hazreti Pîr Muhammad Nureddin al-Jerrahi
(1678-1720), who lived in the Ottoman capitol and is enshrined at the site of his tekke in Fatih,

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. By some accounts, Pir Nureddin was a direct descendant of

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both from his mother and father. The

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he founded is dedicated to the teachings and traditions through an unbroken chain of spiritual transmission (

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) that goes directly back to the Prophet Muhammad and his Companions. During the late

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, the Order was widespread throughout the

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, particularly Macedonia and southern

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(

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). The Jerrahi Order of Dervishes is a cultural, educational, and social relief organization with members from diverse professional, ethnic, and national backgrounds. jerrahi

The historic seat of the Halveti-Jerrahi Order is their Sufi lodge ( tekke) and shrine (

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) in

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, Istanbul. There are circles throughout

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and branches in some

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an countries, Australia,

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and North America, including

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, New York,

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and

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. Communities of the Jerrahi Order hold gatherings where the

dervish Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from fa, درویش, ''Darvīsh'') in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (''tariqah''), or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty. The latter usage i ...

es invoke remembrance ceremonies, practice

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, prepare and serve traditional cuisine, meditate and

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together, and engage in discourses with their Sufi guides. The traditional branch of the Jerrahi Order of America is in Chestnut Ridge,

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with a congregation of mixed immigrant and local convert backgrounds.

History

The Jerrahi way branched off from the Halveti Order, established by the

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Sufi Umar Khalwati, who died in

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in 800 AH/1397 CE. The Halveti consider themselves heirs to the teachings of

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and usually have supported and followed the perspective of

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, especially as concerns the doctrine of

wahdat al-wujud In Islamic philosophy, Sufi metaphysics is centered on the concept of ar, وحدة, waḥdah, unity, label=none or ar, توحيد, tawhid, label=none. Two main Sufi philosophies prevail on this topic. literally means "the Unity of Existenc ...

. Historically, they have also had a pro-

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tendency. The members of the Halveti-Jerrahi Order point to the fact that Imam Ahmad ibn Uthman Sharnubi, the disciple and son-in-law of the ''

qutb Qutb, Qutub, Kutb, Kutub or Kotb ( ar, قطب), means 'axis', 'pivot' or 'pole'. Qutb can refer to celestial movements and be used as an astronomical term or a spiritual symbol. In Sufism, a Qutb is the perfect human being, ''al-Insān al-Kā ...

'' Ibrahim al-Desuqi, wrote in the Tabaqat al-Alwiya (Ranks of the Saints) some three hundred years before the birth of Pir Nureddin al-Jerrahi in 1089 AH/1678 CE: ''Sayyid Nur al-din Jarrahi will be from Istanbul and will appear in the year 1115 A.H. He will live forty-four years. One of his miracles will be that he will see his station in heaven while in this world, and will enter paradise directly upon his demise. The prayers of those who visit him and of those who pray in his presence will be accepted by God.'' Pir Nureddin would someday sign the book by this passage, which is currently in the Fatih Library in

(#3286). Through his father he was a descendent of Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah, one of the ten companions whose inclusion in paradise, according to tradition, was announced in this world by the Prophet

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. At the age of nineteen he finished his study of Sharia with honors and Sultan Mustafa II appointed him chief justice (

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) of

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, which was then a province of the Ottoman realm. As he traveled through

on horseback, trailed by an entourage, in order to bid farewell to his family, he visited his maternal uncle, across from whose house was the

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of the

Jelveti Celvetîyye Tariqat or Jelveti is a Sufi order that was founded by ''"Akbıyık Sultan"'', a murid of Haji Bayram Veli in Bursa as ''"The tariqat of Bayramiyye-î Celvetîyye"'' and later reorganized by the Turkish saint Aziz Mahmud Hudayi. ...

- Halveti Order of

es in

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. His uncle took him to meet the Sheikh Ali Alaeddin al-Halveti Köstendili who knew his name before the introduction. During the

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ceremony Nureddin experienced a

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of ecstasy and immediately devoted himself to Sheikh Ali Alaeddin who ordered that he now put the

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behind him. Nureddin, therefore, resigned from his honored post, dispersed his followers, and gave all his possessions to members of his family. He entered the spiritual retreat ( halvet), spending a period of forty days in seclusion and

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. For the next seven years he studied with his spiritual guide, until the age of twenty-six he himself was crowned a Sheikh. His now famous Sufi lodge (tekke) was an Ottoman structure inaugurated for him in the year 1115 AH/1704 CE by the then reigning Sultan Ahmed III and it still stands in the

, Fatih neighborhood of

today. In this year he received the secret Divine Names, the customs and ways (adab), and the

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and invocations unique to his order –the Wird-i Kabir-i Sabahiyyah (“the Great Morning Litany”) and the Wird-i Saghir-i Masaiyyah (“the Great Evening Litany”)– all through divine inspiration. Initially the

of the Jerrahis in Fatih attracted the aristocracy and administrators of the

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, just as the

Mevlevi Order The Mevlevi Order or Mawlawiyya ( tr, Mevlevilik or Mevleviyye; fa, طریقت مولویه) is a Sufi order that originated in Konya (a city now in Turkey; formerly capital of the Seljuk Sultanate) and which was founded by the followers of Jalal ...

at that time attracted intellectuals and artists, the Bektashi Order drew the

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, and the

Naqshbandi Order The Naqshbandi ( fa, نقشبندی)), Neqshebendi ( ku, نه‌قشه‌به‌ندی), and Nakşibendi (in Turkish) is a major Sunni order of Sufism. Its name is derived from Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari. Naqshbandi masters trace their ...

the

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. Today people from all walks of life gather there for

. Indeed unique to the Jerrahis is their elaborate

, which originated as particular gifts given in recognition of Pir Nureddin’s station (maqaam). It is traditionally held that the blue

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upon which the Grand Sheikh of the dergah sits was a gift of Hazreti

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of the

- Halveti Order. The part of the Sheikh’s turban that hangs on the left side of the taj was a gift from Abdul Qadir Gilani. Ahmad al-Rifaʽi sent the metal top of the banner and the

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came from Ibrahim al-Desuqi and

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came from

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, who also sent a secret

ritual known as the ''topu bedevi''. From the Naqshbandi came the recitation of the Qur’an during the zikr ceremony. Shamsuddin Siwasi sent the first chant sung in the zikr and Sheikh Wafa sent the invocations chanted during the final circumambulations. From Mevlânâ Rūmī came the

Sultan Walad Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad ( fa, بها الدین محمد ولد), more popularly known as Sultan Walad ( fa, سلطان ولد) was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Persian poet, Sufi, Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar and one of the foun ...

Walk during the

Sema Sama ( tr, Sema, Persian, Urdu and ar, سَمَاع - ''samā‘un'') is a Sufi ceremony performed as part of the meditation and prayer practice dhikr. Sama means "listening", while dhikr means "remembrance".During, J., and R. Sellheim. "Sam ...

rite. And from Hazreti Sünbül Efendi came the

meditation Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm ...

on the

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: Ya Hayy (O, Ever-Living and Eternal), which is repeated as part of the ''devren'' or circular movement in the

. Within the Jerrahi

tariqa A tariqa (or ''tariqah''; ar, طريقة ') is a school or order of Sufism, or specifically a concept for the mystical teaching and spiritual practices of such an order with the aim of seeking ''haqiqa'', which translates as "ultimate truth". ...

can be found essential elements of many different Sufi Orders. The Jerrahi zikr is evoked aloud and rhythmically, using musical compositions derived from various brotherhoods. Group singers stand aside the circle of

es along with musicians playing bendir and

kudüm ''Kudüm'' is one of the most fundamental rhythm instruments in classical Turkish music. The person playing it is called ''kudümzen''. It is grouped with the ney, rebap, and halile as one of the four main instruments in Mevlevi music. It co ...

used for rhythm. In the

ceremony the dervishes kneel in a perfect

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reciting the sacred invocation of Divine Unity ( Lailahailla’Llah), followed by the sacred invocation of the Most Divine Name ( Allah), and then the sacred invocation of the Divine Essence (Hu). Between each cycle there is a Quranic recitation and a

supplication Supplication (also known as petitioning) is a form of prayer, wherein one party humbly or earnestly asks another party to provide something, either for the party who is doing the supplicating (e.g., "Please spare my life.") or on behalf of someon ...

. The dervishes then arise and chant the sacred ballad, the initial ''ilahi'' given by Shamsuddin Siwasi. They continue with the repetition of Divine Essence (Hu) and the Divine Names. Each

is given certain invocations and Sacred Names, according to his or her place on their path in life. Since Pir Nureddin Jerrahi, twenty

sheikhs Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief of a ...

have knelt upon the blessed blue sheepskin seat at the principal

and followed Islamic principles in order to bind themselves to the Beloved. Nineteen of these sheikhs, along with Pir Nureddin and his family, are entombed in the dergah. The nineteenth,

Hajji Hajji ( ar, الحجّي; sometimes spelled Hadji, Haji, Alhaji, Al-Hadj, Al-Haj or El-Hajj) is an honorific title which is given to a Muslim who has successfully completed the Hajj to Mecca. It is also often used to refer to an elder, since i ...

Sheikh Muzaffer Özak Âșkî al-Jerrahi, came to America and

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a branch of the order in the West. Sheikh Muzaffer’s greatest dream was to share with humanity the secrets within the invocation of Divine Unity. He passed away into the realm of pre-eternity in Istanbul on 12 February 1985, his head bowed in

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, his lips and

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humming the invocation of Unity, ''Lailahailla’Llah'', one final time. Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak's most prominent disciples and successors in North America were

Tosun Bayrak Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti (January 21, 1926 – 15 February 2018) was an author, artist, translator and Sufi. He served as a government official in Ankara, Honorary Consul of Turkey in Morocco and was the Sheikh of the Jerr ...

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, and Philippa de Menil. Following Ozak's death, the

was split into the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order and the Jerrahi Order of America, with the former reflecting a more "universalistic" orientation, and the latter a more "traditional" one. Sheikh Muzaffer consciously fostered different interpretations of his teachings while also showing it was not his intention to have the Halveti-Jerrahi Order separated. Moreover, he grew to embrace the more adaptive interpretations of his message over the more conservative, yet still legitimate perspective of traditionalists. Sheikh Sefer Dal was Grand Sheikh of the Order from 1985 until his own death in 1999. Sheikh Ömer Tuğrul İnançer Efendi was Grand Sheikh of the Order between 1999 and 2022. According to

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founder Imtiaz Sooliman, it was Sefer Dal, 20th Grand Sheikh of the Order, who advised him to establish the organization during a visit to Dal's Istanbul lodge in Fatih. During the Bosnian War, the Order's American branch worked with the

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to bring 160 Bosnian refugees to the US. Inancer was a speaker at the World Sufi Forum organized by the All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board in 2016.Priyanka Mogul
World Sufi Forum 2016: What you need to know about Muslim event inaugurated by Narendra Modi
International Business Times, 17 March 2016. Accessed 1 November 2018.

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