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.
إبراهيم زاهد الجيلاني
Ibrāhīm Zāhid-i Gīlānī
Earliest named master in TDV's Khalwatī chain; his Zāhidiyya line never became an institutional order
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 Ibrāhīm Zāhid-i Gīlānī
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Akhī Muḥammad Kerīm al-Dīn al-Khwārazmīأخي محمد الخوارزمي1378
two sourcesin Khalwatiyya (Halvetiyye)sources differ
initiation · Ibrāhīm Zāhid-i Gīlānī to Akhī Muḥammad Kerīm al-Dīn al-Khwārazmī · Two independent sources
TDV: Ibrāhīm Zāhid-i Gīlānī's khalīfa Akhī Muḥammad carried his line to Khwarazm.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, HalvetiyyeChecked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L4408-4412; L4422 · agreesThe tradition runs Ibrāhīm al-Zāhid (al-Gīlānī), Muḥammad Nūr al-Khalwatī, then ʿUmar al-Khalwatī; n. 2 identifies Karīm al-Dīn M. al-Khwārizmī, Akhī Mehmed.
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L1850-1881 · differsChart dates Muḥammad al-Khalwatī Nūr to d. 1350; the atlas has 780/1378-79 (TDV).
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Trimingham (1971, p. 74 and chart) gives Muḥammad Nūr al-Khalwatī (= Akhī Mehmed al-Khwārizmī) a death date of 1350, against 780/1378-79 in the atlas (TDV), and has Ibrāhīm al-Zāhid die between 690 and 700/1291-1300.Trimingham, Sufi Orders in Islam (1971)
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Ibrāhīm Zāhid-i Gīlānī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/ibrahim-zahid-gilani (data of 31 October 2026).