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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.

محمد زاهد قوتقو

Mehmed Zahid Kotku

Head of the İskenderpaşa community before Esad Coşan

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 Mehmed Zahid Kotku

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

  • Mahmud Esad Coşanمحمود أسعد جوشان2001
    one sourcein Naqshbandiyya

    successor of · Mehmed Zahid Kotku to Mahmud Esad Coşan · One source

    Coşan succeeded Mehmed Zahid Kotku as leader of the İskenderpaşa community; he was also Kotku's son-in-law.

    Wikipedia (tertiary), 'Mahmud Esad Coşan'

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    • Wikipedia 'Mahmud Esad Coşan', summary · agreesLeader after Kotku's death; wife Hacer Muhterem was Kotku's daughter. Silsila to Khālid not read. Chain from Khālid al-Baghdādī to this shaykh was not read in an open source; no link to the historical chain is drawn (formal lineage not asserted).

How to cite

Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Mehmed Zahid Kotku”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/zahid-kotku (data of 31 October 2026).