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Khwājagān is the Persianized plural form of the Arabic title Khwaja, "the Master". Khawaja or Khwaja ( Arabic: خواجة khawājah, Persian: خواجه pronounced khâje) is a title used Khwajagan is a word often used to refer to a chain of Central Asian Naqshbandi Sufi Masters from the 11th to the 16th century. Naqshbandi ( Naqshbandiyya) is one of the major Tasawwuf orders ( Tariqa) of Islam. Sufism ( تصوّف - taṣawwuf, Persian: صوفی‌گری sufigari, Turkish: tasavvuf, Urdu: تصوف

G. I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way is associated by some authors such as Idries Shah and John Godolphin Bennett as originating with the Khwajagan. George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Գեորգի Գյուրջիև Γιώργος Γεωργιάδης Георгий Иванович Гюрджиев (or Gurdjiev) January Idries Abutahir Shah ( 16 June, 1924 &ndash 23 November, 1996) ( ادریس شاه) also known as Idris Shah, né John Godolphin Bennett, ( 8 June 1897 - 13 December 1974) was a British mathematician scientist technologist industrial research director

Some prominent Central Asian Khwajagan were:

Bibliography

Beads of Dews from the Source of Life by Mawlana Ali ibn Husain Safi ISBN188221621-0
The Way of the Sufi by Idries Shah ISBN 0-900860-80-4
Gurdjieff: A Very Great Enigma by J.G. Bennett ISBN 0877282161
Masters Of Wisdom: An Esoteric History of the Spiritual Unfolding of Life on This Planet by J.G. Bennett ISBN 0877284660
Masters Of Wisdom of Central Asia by Hasan Shusud ISBN 0900306939
The Teachers of Gurdjieff by Rafael Lefort ISBN 0877282137

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Hadrat Abu Yaqub Yusuf Hamdani (d 1140) is the first of the group of Central Asian Sufi teachers known simply as Khwajagan (the Masters of Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi (Xoja Ahmad Yassivi also spelled Khoja Ahmad Yasawi, Ahmet Yasevi, Ahmed Yesevi or Ata Yesevi) born in This does not cite its references or sources. You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari ( 1318 – 1389) was the founder of what would become one of the largest and most influential Sufi Muslim orders Shams ud Din Kulal (شمس الدین کلال was born in Bukhara to the well known scholar Saif ud Din Hamza (سیف الدین حمزہ a direct descendant of Prophet Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی ( August 18, 1414 &ndash November 19, 1492) was one of the greatest Idries Abutahir Shah ( 16 June, 1924 &ndash 23 November, 1996) ( ادریس شاه) also known as Idris Shah, né John Godolphin Bennett, ( 8 June 1897 - 13 December 1974) was a British mathematician scientist technologist industrial research director John Godolphin Bennett, ( 8 June 1897 - 13 December 1974) was a British mathematician scientist technologist industrial research director The Teachers of Gurdjieff (ISBN 0-87728-213-7 is a book by Rafael Lefort that purports to describe a journey to the Middle east and Central Asia The Teachers of Gurdjieff (ISBN 0-87728-213-7 is a book by Rafael Lefort that purports to describe a journey to the Middle east and Central Asia

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