Atlas
About this atlas
The atlas holds the chains of transmission from the Prophet as the standard references and the classical sources record them: the Sufi orders, the chains of Qurʾān recitation, the teachers of the schools of law and ḥadīth, and the lines of the Prophet's family, with the places they spread and the living houses and teachers who carry them today. Every link shows its sources; where they differ, both readings are shown, and we do not rule on any community's claims. Ibn ʿArabī's own life, teachers and readers are on their own page.
علاء الدين علي الكوستنديلي
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī Köstendilī
Died 1143/1730 (TDV; conflicts with his disciple's date)
Master of Nūr al-Dīn Jarrāḥī
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
No chain up to the Prophet is recorded for this person in the sources read.
How to read the marks
- Two sources: a solid rule. Two independent references give the same link.
- One source: a lighter rule, so labelled.
- The community's own account: a dotted rule. The order tells it; we have not yet read it against a reference source.
- A gap in the rule: the sources omit names between the two. The label says which.
- The sources differ: tap the ≠ to read each reading with its source.
- A ring: a spiritual link, without a meeting (uwaysī).
Who received from ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī Köstendilī
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Nūr al-Dīn Jarrāḥī (Cerrâhî)نور الدين الجراحي1721
the community's own accountin Khalwatiyya (Halvetiyye)sources differ
initiation · ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī Köstendilī to Nūr al-Dīn Jarrāḥī (Cerrâhî) · The community's own account
Köstendilī is named Nūr al-Dīn's shaykh.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, CerrâhiyyeChecked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L4486-4487 · silentThe Cerrāḥī chain is not in Trimingham, which has only the Jarrāḥiyya founder Nūr al-Dīn M. al-Jarrāḥ (d. 1146/1733 or 1133/1720).
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- TDV gives Nūr al-Dīn d. 1133/1721 but his shaykh d. 1143/1730; the dates cannot both be right.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Cerrâhiyye
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī Köstendilī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/alaeddin-kostendili (data of 31 October 2026).