The Süleymancılar or Sülaymanlilar is a Sunni Muslim Movement focusing on Quran Education globally, based in Turkey.Barry Rubin (2010), Guide to Islamist Movements, M.E. Sharpe. p410 It takes its name from Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan who started Quranic Education in Turkey despite secularist bans in 1930's. In the early 1990s it was estimated that there were over two million members in Turkey.Banu Eligür (2010), The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey, Cambridge University Press There are also several sub-orders of the Süleymancılar in Germany and United States.United American Muslim Association

Süleymancılar Silsila The Süleymancılar Silsila or chain of succession is as follows:Gammer, Moshe. Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1994. # Name Buried Birth Death 1 Sayyiduna Muhammad Madinah, Saudi Arabia Mon 12 Rabi I

(570/571 CE) 12 Rabi I 11 AH

(5/6 June 632 CE) 2 Sayyiduna Abu Bakr Siddiq Madinah, Saudi Arabia 22 Jumada II 13 AH

(22 August 634 CE) 3 Sayyiduna Salman al-Farsi Mada'in, Iraq 10 Rajab 33 AH

(4/5 February 654 CE) 4 Imām Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Madinah, Saudi Arabia 23 Sha'ban 24 AH

(22/23 June 645 CE) 24 Jumada II 101/106/107 AH 5 Imām Jafar Sadiq Madinah, Saudi Arabia 8 Ramadan 80 AH

(5/6 November 699 CE) 15 Rajab 148 AH

(6/7 September 765 CE) 6 Khwaja Bayazid Bastami Bistam, Semnan province, Iran 186 AH

(804 CE) 15 Sha'ban 261 AH

(24/25 May 875 CE) 7 Khwaja Abul-Hassan Kharaqani Kharaqan, near Bistam, Semnan province, Iran 352 AH

(963 CE) 10 Muharram 425 AH8Khwaja Abu al-Qasim GurganiGorgan, Golestan, Iran380 AH (990 CE)450 AH (1058 CE)

(5/6 December 1033 CE) 9 Khwaja Abu Ali Farmadi Toos, Khurasan, Iran 434 AH

(1042/1043 CE) 4 Rabi I 477 or 511 AH

(10 July 1084 / 6 July 1117) 10 Khwaja Abu Yaqub Yusuf Hamadānī Marv, near Mary, Turkmenistan 440 AH

(1048/1049 CE) Rajab 535 AH

(Feb/Mar 1141 CE) 11 Khwaja Abdul Khaliq Ghujdawani Ghajdawan, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 22 Sha'ban 435 AH

(24/25 March 1044 CE) 12 Rabi I 575 AH

(17/18 August 1179 CE) 12 Khwaja Arif Riwgari Reogar, near Bukhara, Uzbekistan 27 Rajab 551 AH

(15 September 1156 CE) 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 CE) 17 Rabi I 717 AH

(29/30 May 1317 CE) 14 Khwaja Azizan Ali Ramitani Khwaarizm, Uzbekistan 591 AH

(1194 CE) 27 Ramadan 715 or 721 AH

(25/26 December 1315 or 20/21 October 1321) 15 Khwaja Mohammad Baba As-Samasi Samaas, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 25 Rajab 591 AH

(5/6 July 1195 CE) 10 Jumada II 755 AH

(2/3 July 1354 CE) 16 Khwaja Sayyid Amir Kulal Saukhar, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 676 AH

(1277/1278 CE) Wed 2 Jumada II 772 AH

(21/22 December 1370 CE) 17 Khwaja Muhammad Baha'uddin Naqshband Bukhari Qasr-e-Arifan, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 4 Muharram 718 AHFaiz Naqshband (Urdu Translation): Malfuzat of Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi, p.46

(8/9 March 1318 CE) 3 Rabi I 791 AH

(2/3 March 1389 CE) 18 Khwaja Ala'uddin Attar Bukhari Jafaniyan, Transoxiana,Uzbekistan Wed 20 Rajab 804 AH

(23 February 1402 CE) 19 Khwaja Yaqub Charkhi Gulistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan 762 AH

(1360/1361 CE) 5 Safar 851 AH

(21/22 April 1447 CE) 20 Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar Samarkand, Uzbekistan Ramadan 806 AH

(March/April 1404 CE) 29 Rabi I 895 AH

(19/20 February 1490 CE) 21 Khwaja Muhammad Zahid Wakhshi Wakhsh 14 Shawwal 852 AH

(11/12 December 1448 CE) 1 Rabi I 936 AH

(3/4 November 1529 CE) 22 Khwaja Durwesh Muhammad Asqarar, Uzbekistan 16 Shawwal 846 AH

(17/18 February 1443 CE) 19 Muharram 970 AH

(18/19 September 1562 CE) 23 Khwaja Muhammad Amkanaki Amkana, Bukhara, Uzbekistan 918 AH

(1512/1513 CE) 22 Sha'ban 1008 AH

(8/9 March 1600 CE) 24 Khwaja Muhammad Baqi Billah Berang Delhi, India 5 Dhu'l-Hijja 971 or 972 AH

(14 July 1564 / 3 July 1565) 25 Jumada II 1012 AH

(29/30 November 1603 CE) 25 Shaikh Ahmad al-Fārūqī al-Sirhindī, Imām Rabbānī Sirhind, India 14 Shawwal 971 AH

(25/26 May 1564 CE) 28 Safar 1034 AH

(9/10 December 1624 CE) 26 Imām Khwaja Muhammad Masum Fārūqī Sirhind, India 1007 AH

(1598/1599 CE) 9 Rabi I 1099 AH

(13/14 January 1688 CE) 27 Khwaja Muhammad Saif ud-Dīn Fārūqī Sirhind, India 1049 AH

(1639/1640 CE) 19 or 26 Jumada I 1096 AH

(April 1685 CE) 28 Sayyid Nur Muhammad Badayuni Delhi, India 11 Dhu'l-Qa'da 1135AH

(12/13 August 1723 CE) 29 Shaheed Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan, Shams-ud-Dīn Habībullāh Delhi, India 11 Ramadan 1111 AH

(2/3 March 1700 CE) 10 Muharram 1195 AH

(Fri 5 January 1781 CE) 30 Khwaja Abdullah Dehlavi, alias Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi Delhi, India 1156 AHFaiz Naqshband (Urdu Translation): Malfuzat of Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi, p.325

(1743 CE) 22 Safar 1240 AH

(15/16 October 1824 CE) 31 Hāfīz Abu Sā‘īd Fāruqī Mujaddidī Delhi, India 2 Dhu'l-Qa'da 1196 AH

(9/10 October 1782 CE) 1 Shawwal 1250 AH

(30/31 January 1835 CE) 32 Khwaja Shah Ahmed Sā‘īd Fāruqī Mujaddidi ibn Hāfīz Abu Sā‘īd Fāruqī Madinah, Saudi Arabia 2 Rabi I 1277 AH

(18/19 September 1860 CE) 33 Khwaja Muhammed Mazhar İş’an Can-ı Cânân ibn Khwaja Ahmed Sā‘īd Fāruqī India 1248 AH

(1832 CE) Madina

(1883 CE) 34 Khwaja Selahüddin İbn-i Mevlana Siracüddin Osh - Kyrgyzstan(1843 CE) Osh - Kyrgyzstan

(13 November 1910, CE) 35 Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan Istanbul, Turkey (1888 CE)(September 16, 1959 CE)

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