# Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu

Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu (1929 – 23 June 2022), also known as Mahmud Effendi and known to his followers as "Effendi Hazretleri", was a Turkish Sufi Sheikh and the leader of the influential İsmailağa Jamia of the Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya centered 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 of the Quran 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.

## 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. 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.

## 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 Naqshbandi order. 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.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was known to maintain close relations with Ustaosmanoğlu. Erdoğan paid a highly publicized visit to Ustaosmanoğlu the night before the presidential election in 2014.
Ustaosmanoğlu passed away on 23 June 2022, after two weeks of hospitalization for an infection. 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.

## Chain of succession

The below is the Silsila, or chain of succession, within the Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya İsmailağa Jamia of Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu.
| # | 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 al-Qasim Gurgani | Gorgan, Golestan, Iran | 380 AH (990 C.E) | 450 AH (1058 C.E) |
| 9 | 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) |
| 10 | Khwaja Abu Yaqub Yusuf Hamadānī | Merv, Turkmenistan | 440 AH (1048/1049 C.E) | Rajab 535 AH (Feb/Mar 1141 C.E) |
| 11 | 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) |
| 12 | 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.) |
| 13 | 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) |
| 14 | 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) |
| 15 | 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) |
| 16 | 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) |
| 17 | Khwaja Muhammad Baha'ud-Dīn Naqshband Bukharī | Qasr-e-Aarifan, Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 4 Muharram 718 AH (8/9 March 1318 C.E) | 3 Rabi al-Awwal 791 AH (2/3 March 1389 C.E) |
| 18 | Khwaja Ala'ud-Dīn Attar Bukhari, son-in-law of (17) | Jafaaniyan, Transoxiana, Uzbekistan | | Wed 20 Rajab 804 AH (23 February 1402 C.E) |
| 19 | Khwaja Yaqub Charkhi | Gulistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan | 762 AH (1360/1361 C.E) | 5 Safar 851 AH (21/22 April 1447 C.E) |
| 20 | 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) |
| 21 | 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) |
| 22 | 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) |
| 23 | 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) |
| 24 | 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) |
| 25 | 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) |
| 26 | 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) |
| 27 | 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) |
| 28 | Sayyid Nur Muhammad Badayuni | Delhi, India | | 11 Dhu al-Qi'dah 1135AH (12/13 August 1723 C.E) |
| 29 | 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) |
| 30 | Khwaja Abdullah Dehlavi, alias Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavī | Delhi, India | 1156 AH (1743 C.E) | 22 Safar 1240 AH (15/16 October 1824 C.E) |
| 31 | Mawlānā Muhammad Khâlid-i Baghdâdî | Damascus, Syria | Sharazut, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq (1779 C.E) | (1827 C.E) |
| 32 | Abd Allah-i Mücâvir fi-Balad-î'l-Lâh, alias Abd Allah-e Macca-e Erzincanī | Mekke-i-Mükerreme | Mekke-i-Mükerreme ? | ? |
| 33 | Shaykh Mustafa İsmet Garibu'l-Lâh, alias Grand Sheikh Affandy | Çarşamba, Fatih-Istanbul, Turkey | Ioannina, Ottoman Empire | 1289 AH |
| 34 | Khwaja Khâlil-i Nûr-u Allah Zaghrawi | | Zara, Sivas, Ottoman Empire | |
| 35 | Khwaja Ali Rezâ al-Bazzâz Affandy | Tekke Camii, Bandırma, Balıkesir Province-Ottoman Empire | Bulgaria | 1330 AH |
| 36 | Sheikh Ali Haydâr Affandy Hazrat | Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery, İstanbul, Turkey | Akhaltsikhe, Batumi-Ottoman Empire 1288 AH | |
| 37 | 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 |