The Süleymancılar or Sülaymaniyya is a

Hanafi The Hanafi school or Hanafism is the oldest and largest Madhhab, school of Islamic jurisprudence out of the four schools within Sunni Islam. It developed from the teachings of the Faqīh, jurist and theologian Abu Hanifa (), who systemised the ...

Sunni Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest companion Abu Bakr () rightfully succeeded him as the caliph of the Mu ...

Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

Tariqa A ''tariqa'' () is a religious order of Sufism, or specifically a concept for the mystical teaching and spiritual practices of such an order with the aim of seeking , which translates as "ultimate truth". A tariqa has a (guide) who plays the ...

'' based in

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. It takes its name from

Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan Hazret Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan (1888, Silistre, Bulgaria - 16 September 1959; Kısıklı, Üsküdar, Istanbul ); is the founder of the Süleymancılar Sufi order, a Turkish Islamic scholar, and mystic. Biography Suleiman Hilmi Tunahan was ...

. In the early 1990s it was estimated that there were over two million members in Turkey. There are also several sub-orders of the Süleymancılar in Germany and United States.

Süleymancılar Silsila

The Süleymancılar ''

Silsila ''Silsila'' () is an Arabic language, Arabic word meaning ''chain'', ''link'', ''connection'' often used in various senses of :wikt:lineage, lineage. In particular, it may be translated as "spiritual genealogy" where one Sufi Master transfe ...

'' or chain of succession is as follows:Gammer, Moshe. ''Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan.'' Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1994.

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