Mawlana Khâlid Shahrazuri also known as Khâlid-i Baghdâdî and Mawlana Khalid (; 1779–1827) was a

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, and poet by the name of Shaykh Diya al-

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Khalid al-Shahrazuri, the founder of a branch of the

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order - called Khalidi after him - that has had a profound impact not only on his native Kurdish lands but also on many other regions of the western Islamic world. His writings are among the earliest examples of prose and poetry in

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. Shahrazuri acquired the epithet Baghdadi through his frequent stays in

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, for it was in the town of Karadağ (Qaradagh) in the Shahrizur region, about 5 miles from

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, that he was born in 1779.

Early life

He was born in the year 1779 in the village of Karadağ, near the city of

, in what is now

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. His family belonged to the Jaff tribe that claimed descent from the 3rd caliph 'Uthman. Hence, the attribution al-'Uthmani is sometimes added to his name. He was raised and trained in

, where there were many schools and many mosques and which was considered the primary educational city of his time. Young Khalid studied with the two great scholars of his time, Shaykh `Abdul Karam al-Barzinji and Shaykh `Abdur Rahim al-Barzinji, and he read with Mullah Muhammad `Ali.

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Sources

*'' Classical Islam and the Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition'', Shaykh Muhammad

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, Islamic Supreme Council of America (June 2004), . *E.F. Haydari, ''Al-Majd al-taled fi manaqeb al-sheikh Khalid'', Istanbul 1874 * S. M. Stern, ''Islamic Philosophy & the Classical Tradition'', Oxford 1972 * Hamid Algar, ''The Naqshbandi Order'', Studia Islamica 1976

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Khalid al-Baghdadi
( Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order website)
Belief and Islam Turkish translation by Khalid al-BaghdadiBelief and Islam- by Mawlana Khalid-i Baghdadi
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Early life

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