Maktubat (other)
Maktubat, Mektubat (Arabic: مکتوبات) or Makatib, Mekatib (Persian: مکاتیب), commonly translated as The Letters may refer to the following works: *''Makatib'' (''Maktubat al-Rabbani''), the book containing Ahmad Sirhindi's letters to his disciples, family members, and men of state and of influence * ''Maktubat'', a collection of Ahmad Sirhindi letters to Mughal rulers and other contemporaries * ''Maktubat'', by Esat Erbili *''Mektubat-ı Sırrı Paşa'', by Giritli Sırrı Paşa *''Mektubat'', a book from ''Risale-i Nur The Risale-i Nur Collection ( tr, Risale-i Nur Külliyatı, ota, رساله نور كلیاتی) is a tafsir (exegesis) on the Qur'an written by Said Nursî, an Islamic Scholar from Bitlis region of Turkey between the 1910s and 1950s. The comme ...

Ahmad Sirhindi
Aḥmad al-Fārūqī as-Sirhindī (1564-1624) was a South Asian Islamic scholar from Punjab, Hanafi jurist, and member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order. He has been described by some followers as a Mujaddid, meaning a “reviver", for his work in rejuvenating Islam and opposing the newly made religion of Din-i Ilahi and other problematic opinions of Mughal emperor Akbar.Glasse, Cyril, ''The New Encyclopedia of Islam'', Altamira Press, 2001, p.432 While early South Asian scholarship credited him for contributing to conservative trends in Indian Islam, more recent works, notably by ter Haar, Friedman, and Buehler, have pointed to Sirhindi's significant contributions to Sufi epistemology and practices. Most of the Naqshbandī suborders today, such as the Muḥammadī, Haqqānī, Qāsimī, trace their spiritual lineage through Sirhindi as the ''Mujaddidī'' branch. Sirhindi's shrine, known as Rauza Sharif, is located in Sirhind, Punjab, India. Early life and education Ahmad ...
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Esat Erbili
Esad Erbili or Mehmed Esad Efendi (1847 – March 1931) was a sheikh of the Naqshi-Khalidi Sufi order. At the beginning of World War I, he took a branch of the Naqshbandiyah school of thought to Istanbul. Early years Esad Erbili was born in Arbil (present-day Kurdistan Region) in 1847. He was the 30th Chain of the Golden Silsila, entitled to the honorific title ''Sayyid'' on both his mother's and father's side. His father, Master M. Said, was the Sheikh of Khalidî Tekke in Arbil, while his grandfather, Master Hidayetullah, was a khalifa. After Erbili completed his education in Arbil and Deyr, he became affiliated with the Naqshi-Khalidi Sheikh Taha’l-Hariri at age 23. Five years later he was given the degree of the caliphate. Career in Istanbul Returning from Hajj after the death of Sheikh al-Hariri, Erbili came to Istanbul in 1875. He first stayed at the Besiraga Dargah in Salkimsogut, but when his followers and visitors increased, he left and settled in the muezzin roo ...
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Giritli Sırrı Pasha
Giritli Sırrı Pasha ("Sırrı Pasha the Cretan") was a 19th-century Ottoman administrator and man of letters of Turkish Cretan origin. He was born in 1844 in Kandiye, Crete, Ottoman Empire as the son of Helvacızade Salih Tosun Efendi. He started out as a clerk in the local Ottoman bureaucracy in Crete and later came to İstanbul, pursuing an education with a particular religious emphasis. Climbing through the hierarchy, he served as governor of Trabzon, Kastamonu, Ankara, Sivas and Baghdad, and was noted as a successful administrator. He published his writings of a personal and political nature under the title "Letters of Sırrı Paşa" (''Mektubat-ı Sırrı Paşa''). Yet another collection is his commentaries (tefsir) of various verses of the Koran, united under the titles ''Sırr-ı Kur'an'' (the secret of Koran), ''Sırr-ı insan'', ''Sırr-ı Tenzil'', ''Sırr-ı Meryem'' and ''Ahsenü'l-Kasas''. The last one in particular, on the theme of the stories of Joseph and Jaco ...
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