Safi al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Dajani al-Qushashi ( ar, صفي الدين أحمد بن محمد الدَّجاني القُشاشي ,1583-1661) was a prominent

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master (''

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'') of the Shattariyya

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, who was born in

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in 991 Hijri, or 1538 CE. His family descended from Tamim al-Dari, one of the companions of the Islamic prophet

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. In 1602, his father took him to study from

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i scholars. After returning to

, he studied the Shattariyya order from Ahmad al-Shinnawi, who later also became his father-in-law. After Al-Shinnawi died, Al-Qushashi became his successor in teaching the Shattariyya order in Madina. Al-Qushashi taught the order in a more Sharia-oriented nature and rejected the ''

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'' teaching. This was a change from the previously more syncretic nature of the order. Thus, the dissemination of the Shattariya order by Al-Qushashi students also brought a more orthodox Sufism as their teacher. Some of Al-Qushashi's well-known students from Southeast Asia including Abd al-Rauf al-Sinkili (

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), Abd al-Muhyi of Pamijahan (

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), Yusuf al-Makassari (

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), and Abd al-Malik ibn Abdullah (

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). After he died, the student who became his successor was

Ibrahim al-Kurani Burhan al-Din Ibrahim ibn Hassan ibn Shihab al-Din al-Kurani al-Madani ( ar, برهان الدين إبراهيم بن حسن بن شهاب الدين الكوراني المدني, 1023-1101 AH, or 1615-1690 CE), was a Gorani Kurdish Sufi maste ...

, who maintained close relationships with the order's students from Southeast Asia.

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