Naqshbandī

The Naqshbandi order took its name from Baha al-Din Naqshband, who was born near Bukhara in 1318. At the end of the sixteenth century Baqi Billah brought the order to India, where his disciple Ahmad Sirhindi founded the Mujaddidi branch.

Sirhindi's letters reached Mughal nobles and argued for stricter religious observance. In the early nineteenth century Khalid of Shahrazur established another influential branch in the Ottoman lands, with followers in Iraq and Syria.