Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu

Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu
Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu
Born	1929; Tavşanlı [tr] (Miço village), Of, Trabzon, Turkey
Died	23 June 2022 (aged 93); Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey
Occupation	Leader of the İsmailağa jamia of Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya Ṭarīqah
Awards	35 The Muslim 500 most influential;

Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu (1927 – 23 June 2022), usually referred to as Mahmut Effendi and known to his disciples as "Efendi Hazretleri", was a Turkish Sufi Sheikh and the leader of the influential İsmailağa jamia of the Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya Ṭarīqah centred in Çarşamba, Istanbul.

Early life

Ustaosmanoğlu was born in a village imam in Miço (now Tavşanlı) village of the Of district. He became a hafiz under his father by the age of 6 and continued his madrasa education, gaining his ijazah by the age of 16. Afterward he married his cousin and started his work as an imam.^[1]

Naqshbandi order

In 1952, Ustaosmanoğlu met Ahıskalı Ali Haydar Efendi (Gürbüzler), a Naqshbandi sheikh who became his murshid. Ali Haydar Efendi appointed him as the imam of the İsmailağa Mosque in 1954.^[2] By the year 1960, Ustaosmanoğlu's life had its greatest turn after Ali Haydar Efendi's demise and he became the leader of the path (tariqa). In 1996, he retired as the imam of the İsmailağa Musjid.^[2]

Later life

Ustaosmanoğlu tried to keep a low profile in the following years, especially after the 1997 memorandum, but his relations came under the public spotlight with a series of internal strife in the sect. His son-in-law Hızır Ali Muratoğlu was murdered in 1998 and in 2006, a retired imam named Bayram Ali Öztürk was murdered in the mosque and the man who stabbed him to death was lynched by the congregation.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was known to maintain close relations with Ustaosmanoğlu.^[6] Erdoğan paid a highly publicised visit to Ustaosmanoğlu the night before the presidential election in 2014.^[7]

Ustaosmanoğlu passed away on 23 June 2022, after two weeks of hospitalization for an infection.^[8] At his funeral, his son Ahmet Ustaosmanoğlu announced that his father was succeeded by Hasan Kılıç, the father of Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu's other son's wife.

Khalid’îyyah, İsmailağa jamia and tarīqah silsila

#	Name	Buried	Birth	Death
1	Sayyadna Muhammad the last Prophet	Madinah, Saudi Arabia	Mon 12 Rabi al-Awwal (570/571 CE)	12 Rabi al-Awwal 11 AH (5/6 June 632 CE)
2	Sayyadna Abu Bakr Siddiq	Madinah, Saudi Arabia		22 Jumada al-Thani 13 AH (22 August 634 C.E)
3	Sayyadna Salman al-Farsi	Mada'in, Iraq		10 Rajab 33 AH (4/5 February 654 C.E)
4	Imām Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, son of son of (2)	Madinah, Saudi Arabia	23 Shaban 24 AH (22/23 June 645 C.E)	24 Jumada al-Thani 101/106/107 AH
5	Imām Jafar Sadiq, son of granddaughter of (2)	Madinah, Saudi Arabia	8 Ramadan 80 AH (5/6 November 699 C.E)	15 Rajab 148 AH (6/7 September 765 C.E)
6	Khwaja Bayazid Bastami	Bistam, Semnan province, Iran	186 AH (804 C.E)	15 Shaban 261 AH (24/25 May 875 C.E)
7	Khwaja Abul-Hassan Kharaqani	Kharaqan, near Bistam, Semnan province, Iran	352 AH (963 C.E)	10 Muharram 425 AH (5/6 December 1033 C.E)
8	Khwaja Abu Ali Farmadī	Toos, Khurasan, Iran	434 AH (1042/1043 C.E)	4 Rabi al-Awwal 477 or 511 AH (10 July 1084 / 6 July 1117)
9	Khwaja Abu Yaqub Yusuf Hamadānī	Merv, Turkmenistan	440 AH (1048/1049 C.E)	Rajab 535 AH (Feb/Mar 1141 C.E)
10	Khwaja Abdul Khaliq Ghujdawani	Ghajdawan, Bukhara, Uzbekistan	22 Shaban 435 AH (24/25 March 1044 C.E)	12 Rabi al-Awwal 575 AH (17/18 August 1179 C.E)
11	Khwaja Arif Reogarī	Reogar, near Bukhara, Uzbekistan	27 Rajab 551 AH (15 September 1156 C.E)	1 Shawwal 616 AH (10/11 December 1219 C.E.)
12	Khwaja Mahmood Anjir-Faghnawi	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	18 Shawwal 628 AH (18/19 August 1231 C.E)	17 Rabi al-Awwal 717 AH (29/30 May 1317 C.E)
13	Khwaja Azizan Ali Ramitani	Khwaarizm, Uzbekistan	591 AH (1194 C.E)	27 Ramadan 715 or 721 AH (25/26 December 1315 or 20/21 October 1321)
14	Khwaja Muhammad Baba Samasī	Samaas, Bukhara, Uzbekistan	25 Rajab 591 AH (5/6 July 1195 C.E)	10 Jumada al-Thani 755 AH (2/3 July 1354 C.E)
15	Khwaja Sayyid Amir Kulal	Saukhaar, Bukhara, Uzbekistan	676 AH (1277/1278 C.E)	Wed 2 Jumada al-Thani 772 AH (21/22 December 1370 C.E)
16	Khwaja Muhammad Baha'ud-Dīn Naqshband Bukharī	Qasr-e-Aarifan, Bukhara, Uzbekistan	4 Muharram 718 AH^[9] (8/9 March 1318 C.E)	3 Rabi al-Awwal 791 AH (2/3 March 1389 C.E)
17	Khwaja Ala'ud-Dīn Attar Bukhari, son-in-law of (17)	Jafaaniyan, Transoxiana, Uzbekistan		Wed 20 Rajab 804 AH (23 February 1402 C.E)
18	Khwaja Yaqub Charkhi	Gulistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan	762 AH (1360/1361 C.E)	5 Safar 851 AH (21/22 April 1447 C.E)
19	Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Ramadan 806 AH (March/April 1404 C.E)	29 Rabi al-Awwal 895 AH (19/20 February 1490 C.E)
20	Khwaja Muhammad Zahid Wakhshi	Wakhsh	14 Shawwal 852 AH (11/12 December 1448 C.E)	1 Rabi al-Awwal 936 AH (3/4 November 1529 C.E)
21	Khwaja Dervish Muhammad, son of sister of (20)	Asqarar, Uzbekistan	16 Shawwal 846 AH (17/18 February 1443 C.E)	19 Muharram 970 AH (18/19 September 1562 C.E)
22	Khwaja Muhammad Amkanaki, son of (21)	Amkana, Bukhara, Uzbekistan	918 AH (1512/1513 C.E)	22 Shaban 1008 AH (8/9 March 1600 C.E)
23	Khwaja Muhammad Baqī Billah Berang	Delhi, India	5 Dhu al-Hijjah 971 or 972 AH (14 July 1564 / 3 July 1565)	25 Jumada al-Thani 1012 AH (29/30 November 1603 C.E)
24	Shaikh Ahmad al-Farūqī al-Sirhindī, Imām Rabbānī	Sirhind, India	14 Shawwal 971 AH (25/26 May 1564 C.E)	28 Safar 1034 AH (9/10 December 1624 C.E)
25	Imām Khwaja Muhammad Masum Faruqī, 3rd son of (24)	Sirhind, India	1007 AH (1598/1599 C.E)	9 Rabi al-Awwal 1099 AH (13/14 January 1688 C.E)
26	Khwaja Muhammad Saif ud-Dīn Faruqī, son of (25)	Sirhind, India	1049 AH (1639/1640 C.E)	19 or 26 Jumada al-awwal 1096 AH (April 1685 C.E)
27	Sayyid Nur Muhammad Badayuni	Delhi, India		11 Dhu al-Qi'dah 1135AH (12/13 August 1723 C.E)
28	Shaheed Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan, Shams-ud-Dīn Habībullāh	Delhi, India	11 Ramadan 1111 AH (2/3 March 1700 C.E)	10 Muharram 1195 AH (Fri 5 January 1781 C.E)
29	Khwaja Abdullah Dehlavi, alias Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavī	Delhi, India	1156 AH^[10] (1743 C.E)	22 Safar 1240 AH (15/16 October 1824 C.E)
30	Mawlānā Muhammad Khâlid-i Baghdâdî	Damascus, Syria	Sharazut, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq (1779 C.E)	(1827 C.E)
31	Abd Allah-i Mücâvir fi-Balad-î'l-Lâh, alias Abd Allah-e Macca-e Erzincanī	Mekke-i-Mükerreme	Mekke-i-Mükerreme ?	?
32	Shaykh Mustafa İsmet Garibu'l-Lâh, alias Grand Sheikh Affandy	Çarşamba, Fatih-Istanbul, Turkey	Ioannina, Ottoman Empire	1289 AH
33	Khwaja Khâlil-i Nûr-u Allah Zaghrawi		Zara, Sivas, Ottoman Empire
34	Khwaja Ali Rezâ al-Bazzâz Affandy	Tekke Camii, Bandırma, Balıkesir Province-Ottoman Empire	Bulgaria	1330 AH
35	Sheikh Ali Haydâr Affandy Hazrat	Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery, İstanbul, Turkey	Akhaltsikhe, Batumi-Ottoman Empire 1288 AH
36	Sheikh Mahmud Affandy Hazrat	Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery, İstanbul, Turkey	Tavşanlı, Of Trabzon, Turkey (1929 C.E)	24 Dhu al-Qadah 1443 AH (23 June 2022 C.E.) Fatih-Istanbul, Turkey
37	Sheikh Hasan Affandy Hazrat	Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery İstanbul, Turkey	Çaykara, Trabzon, Turkey (1931 C.E)	13 Shawwal 1445 AH (22 April 2024 C.E.)
38	Sheikh Fikri Affandy Hazrat		Ayvacık, Çanakkale, Turkey 1363-1364 AH (1944 C.E)