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.
يحيى الشيرواني
Sayyid Yaḥyā-yi Shirvānī
Died 868/1463-64 · Shamakhi, Baku
Second pīr, 'in a sense' the real founder (TDV); died Baku
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 Sayyid Yaḥyā-yi Shirvānī
3 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Dede ʿUmar Rūshanīعمر روشني1487
two sourcesin Khalwatiyya (Halvetiyye)sources differ
initiation · Sayyid Yaḥyā-yi Shirvānī to Dede ʿUmar Rūshanī · Two independent sources
Named first among Yaḥyā's khalīfas.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, HalvetiyyeChecked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L4439-4443 · agreesYaḥyā-i Shirwānī, author of Wird al-Sattār and master of ʿUmar Rūshanī, is the pīr-i thānī.
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L4505-4510 · agreesn. 2: Evliya Çelebi writes that ʿUmar Rūshenī and Gülsheni were successors of Yaḥyā (another source gives Yaḥyā as successor at Baku).
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Trimingham (1971, p. 77, n. 2): according to some sources Yaḥyā-i Shirwānī was Ibrāhīm Gülsheni's successor at Baku; Evliya Çelebi writes that ʿUmar Rūshenī and Gülsheni were both successors of Yaḥyā. Trimingham's chart dates Yaḥyā d. c. 1460 (atlas 868/1463-64, TDV).Trimingham, Sufi Orders in Islam (1971)
- Ḥabīb Qarāmānīحبيب القراماني
two sourcesin Khalwatiyya (Halvetiyye)
initiation · Sayyid Yaḥyā-yi Shirvānī to Ḥabīb Qarāmānī · Two independent sources
Named among Yaḥyā's khalīfas.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, HalvetiyyeChecked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L4408-4530 · silentḤabīb Qarāmānī is not in Trimingham.
- Curry, 'The Transformation of Muslim Mystical Thought in the Ottoman Empire' (Edinburgh UP, 2010), App. I (Hulvî's Lemezât), pp. 299-302, Table 1 · agreesHabîb-i Karamânî (21-3, d. 902/1497) is listed among Yahyâ's khalifas, not as the primary successor.
- Jamāl-i Khalwatī (Cemâl-i Halvetî)جمال الخلوتي1494
the community's own accountin Khalwatiyya (Halvetiyye)omits: intermediaries the data does not namesources differ
initiation · Sayyid Yaḥyā-yi Shirvānī to Jamāl-i Khalwatī (Cemâl-i Halvetî) · The community's own account
TDV Shaʿbāniyya: Shaʿbān's silsila runs back through Cemâl-i Halvetî and Yaḥyā; direct step not spelled out. Curry's reading of Hulvî: omits Muhammad el-Erzincânî.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, ŞâbâniyyeChecked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L4408-4530 · silentCemāl-i Ḫalvetī is not in Trimingham.
- Curry, 'The Transformation of Muslim Mystical Thought in the Ottoman Empire' (Edinburgh UP, 2010), App. I (Hulvî's Lemezât), pp. 299-302, Table 1 · differsHulvî puts Muhammad el-Erzincânî (22) between Yahyâ (21) and Cemâl el-Halvetî (23, d. 905/1499).
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- TDV Halvetiyye instead says Habīb Qarāmānī's khalīfa Cemâleddin İshak Karamânî (Cemal Halife, d. 933/1527) took the line to Istanbul; whether he is the same man as Cemâl-i Halvetî (d. 899/1494) is not settled in the pages read.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Halvetiyye
- Curry, reading Hulvî's Lemezât (Table 1, p. 302): the primary chain runs Yahyâ-yı Şirvânî (21), Muhammad el-Erzincânî (22), Cemâl el-Halvetî (23).Curry, 'The Transformation of Muslim Mystical Thought in the Ottoman Empire' (Edinburgh UP, 2010), App. I (Hulvî's Lemezât)
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Sayyid Yaḥyā-yi Shirvānī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/yahya-shirvani (data of 31 October 2026).