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.
عمر الخلوتي
ʿUmar al-Khalwatī
Died 800/1397-98 (approximate) (marked uncertain by TDV) · Lāhījān, Tabriz
Eponym of the order; born Lāhījān (Gīlān); grave placed at Tabriz or Avahil near Shamakhi
Sources for this person
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (2 entries)
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 ʿUmar al-Khalwatī
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Akhī Mīram (Emre)أخي ميرم1409
two sourcesin Khalwatiyya (Halvetiyye)
initiation · ʿUmar al-Khalwatī to Akhī Mīram (Emre) · Two independent sources
Named among ʿUmar's four khalīfas.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Ömer el-HalvetîChecked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L1879-1881 · differsTrimingham's chart draws ʿUmar al-Khalwatī straight to Yaḥyā-i Shirwānī, with no Akhī Mīrem; it is a summary chart, not evidence against the TDV list.
- Curry, 'The Transformation of Muslim Mystical Thought in the Ottoman Empire' (Edinburgh UP, 2010), App. I (Hulvî's Lemezât), pp. 299-302, Table 1 · agreesTable 1 lists Pîr ʿÖmer el-Halvetî (17) then Ahî Mîrem (18) as successive primary shaykhs.
- Khapizov, Shekhmagomedov and Abdulmazhidov, 'The Khalwatiyya Sheikhs in Dagestan (16th-17th Centuries)', Iran and the Caucasus 21 (2017), p. 304 · silentCalls Yahya al-Shirvani 'Umar al-Khalwati's disciple; names no intermediate shaykhs, so says nothing on Ahi Mirem.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “ʿUmar al-Khalwatī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/umar-khalwati (data of 31 October 2026).