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Atlas

Chains of transmission from the Prophet, read as the sources give them.
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.

محمود الكردي

Maḥmūd al-Kurdī

Cairo

Khalwatī shaykh in Cairo; gave al-Tijānī Khalwatī ijāza and khilafa (TDV)

Sources for this person

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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 Maḥmūd al-Kurdī

1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.

  • Aḥmad al-Tijānīأحمد التجاني1815
    two sourcesin Tijāniyyasources differ

    gave the khirqa · Maḥmūd al-Kurdī to Aḥmad al-Tijānī · Two independent sources

    TDV: in Cairo al-Kurdī later gave him the Khalwatī ijāza and khilafa.

    TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Ticânî, Ahmed b. Muhammed

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    Checked against

    • ʿAlī Ḥarāzim, Jawāhir al-maʿānī (order's own text; archive.org), jm.txt (pdftotext of archive.org sufibooks-400625) line 9786 · agreesThe order's own Jawāhir names "his shaykh Sayyidī Maḥmūd al-Kurdī al-Miṣrī", from al-Khiḍr orally, as the source of one litany.
    • Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L6068-6070, 6106 · silentTrimingham says he was a muqaddam of the Khalwatiyya and took the Khalwatī line for his chain, without naming al-Kurdī.
    • al-Jabartī, ʿAjāʾib al-āthār (OpenITI), 1237Jabarti.CajaibAthar.Shamela0011998-ara1#L8558, L16663 · silentJabartī knows Maḥmūd al-Kurdī as the Khalwatī shaykh of Cairo with many disciples; he does not mention al-Tijānī.

    Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

    • The order's own Jawāhir al-maʿānī names Maḥmūd al-Kurdī al-Miṣrī as al-Tijānī's shaykh in the isnād of one litany, so the contact is attested in the order's own text; Trimingham notes only that al-Tijānī took the Khalwatī line at first for his chain.ʿAlī Ḥarāzim, Jawāhir al-maʿānī (archive.org)

How to cite

Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Maḥmūd al-Kurdī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/mahmud-al-kurdi (data of 31 October 2026).