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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.

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Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî) المولوية

Sufi orders · Sulṭān Walad (Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad) · after 1273 · Konya · 200+ routes to the Prophet recorded

Order named for Rūmī, organised after his death in 1273 by Ḥusām al-Dīn Chalabī, his son Sulṭān Walad and grandson Ulu ʿĀrif. Konya, with Rūmī's tomb, was its centre, and the Chalabī family of his descendants held the headship. Ottoman lodges spread it, Dīvāne Meḥmed's line prominent among them. Known for the samāʿ ceremony.

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).
Route 1 of 200, the best-sourced: other routes (199)

Routes are ordered by how many steps rest on two sources, then by how few rest on the community's own account or on another chain set's record, then by length. The best-sourced opens first.

Dates are given where the sources give them. Years are CE; the Hijri year is in each name's detail.

Sources differ on 4 links of this route.

  • two sources
  • one source
  • the community's own account
  • names omitted
  • sources differ
  1. 632

  2. the community's own account

    661

  3. one source

    728

  4. two sources

    747

  5. two sources

    781

  6. two sources

    815

  7. two sources

    867

  8. two sources

    909

  9. two sources

  10. the community's own account · omits: intermediaries the data does not name

  11. two sources

    1126

  12. the community's own account

  13. the community's own account

  14. the community's own account

    1231

  15. two sources

    1273

  16. two sources

    1312

Order named for Rūmī, organised after his death in 1273 by Ḥusām al-Dīn Chalabī, his son Sulṭān Walad and grandson Ulu ʿĀrif. Konya, with Rūmī's tomb, was its centre, and the Chalabī family of his descendants held the headship. Ottoman lodges spread it, Dīvāne Meḥmed's line prominent among them. Known for the samāʿ ceremony.

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).

Branches (1)

Each opens as a side-chain from the founder, with the same marks.

Konya Chalabī line (Ulu ʿĀrif)الجلبي القونويfrom 1312 · Konya · 5 names
  1. سلطان ولد1312

  2. two sources

    أولو عارف چلبي1320

  3. one source · omits: some twenty generations of Çelebis after Ulu ʿĀrif; not enumerated in sources read (see Mehmed Said Hemdem Çelebi's list of Konya postnişins, not read).

    جلال الدين باقر چلبي1996

  4. one source

    فاروق همدم چلبي

  5. one source

    إسين چلبي
Karahisar line (Dīvāne Meḥmed, from Muṭahhara Khātūn)جلبية قره حصار15th–16th c. · Karahisar (Afyon) · 2 names
  1. أبابوش ولي1485

  2. the community's own account

    ديواني محمد چلبي1544

Living today

Public roles only, as the communities and the press report them, dated.

How to cite

Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/mawlawiyya (data of 31 October 2026).

Not yet confirmed (14)

These links are told by an order or a secondary source and still have to be read against a primary or reference source.

  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) The chain ends at ʿAlī; the step to the Prophet is the standard Sufi assumption and TDV does not spell it out.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Listed in the chain Aflākī gives in Manāqib al-ʿārifīn (II, 998), as reported by TDV Mevleviyye. [omits: Abū ʿUthmān al-Maghribī (d. 373/984); Abū l-Qāsim al-Jurjānī]
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Listed in the chain Aflākī gives in Manāqib al-ʿārifīn (II, 998), as reported by TDV Mevleviyye.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Listed in the chain Aflākī gives in Manāqib al-ʿārifīn (II, 998), as reported by TDV Mevleviyye.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Listed in the chain Aflākī gives in Manāqib al-ʿārifīn (II, 998), as reported by TDV Mevleviyye.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Sipahsālār calls Bahāʾ Walad a disciple of Najm al-Dīn Kubrā.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Listed in the chain Aflākī gives in Manāqib al-ʿārifīn (II, 998), as reported by TDV Mevleviyye.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Sipahsālār: Bahāʾ Walad descends from Abū Bakr.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Shams served Abū Bakr-i Salabāf of Tabriz about fourteen years.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Appointed Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn khalīfa after Shams's second disappearance (1247); led about ten years.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) After Ḥusām al-Dīn's death in 683/1284 Sulṭān Walad followed Karīm al-Dīn b. Baktamur, who died 691/1292.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Sulṭān Walad took his father's place in 691/1292 per TDV Sultan Veled.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Abāpūsh-i Walī's Çelebi title derives from Muṭahhara Khātūn, daughter of Sulṭān Walad (Sākıb Dede's genealogy).
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)) Father appointed his son shaykh of Karahisar a year before his death.
Where the sources differ (12)
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • Aflākī's chain, as reported by TDV Mevleviyye, passes from ʿAlī to al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī.
    • TDV Hasan-ı Basrî records the belief (inanılır) that al-Ḥasan received the khirqa from ʿAlī or from Kumayl b. Ziyād.
    • Trimingham (App. A): the oldest silsilas (Ibn al-Nadīm; al-Qushayrī) do not name ʿAlī; he enters Sufi chains only in the 5th/11th century.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • Jāmī (Nafaḥāt pp. 44-45) names Dāwūd's guide as Ḥabīb al-Rāʿī; the atlas's Ḥabīb al-ʿAjamī is the figure the Trimingham chart and the Siyar attach.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • al-Dhahabī, Siyar (entry Maʿrūf al-Karkhī): reports al-Sulamī's claim that Maʿrūf accompanied Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī and judges it unproven (lam yaṣiḥḥa).
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • Sipahsālār places Bahāʾ Walad in a chain back to Aḥmad al-Ghazālī (TDV Mevlānā).
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • Reported tradition, but TDV adds that Bahāʾ Walad did not function as a Kubrawī shaykh.
    • Algar (Iranica 'Kobrawiya'): Jāmī's notion that Bahāʾ al-Dīn Walad was Najm al-Dīn Kubrā's pupil 'must be dismissed' (citing Lewis, pp. 30-33).
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • TDV Mevlānā describes Burhān al-Dīn as Rūmī's spiritual guide after his father's death; the Bahāʾ Walad article does not mention him.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • Sipahsālār: descent from Abū Bakr (TDV notes Bahāʾ Walad's descent through his mother).
    • Aflākī: the lineage reaches ʿAlī through the mother; TDV reports that later scholars consider the claim of a Khwārazmshāh mother unsupported.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • Jāmī (Nafaḥāt pp. 535-539): Shams's teachers are uncertain: Abū Bakr Sallābāf of Tabriz, Rukn al-Dīn Sanjāsī, or Bābā Kamāl Jandī.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • TDV Mevleviyye chronology table dates Sulṭān Walad's term from 683/1284 while its text says 691/1292; the two disagree.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • Sākıb Dede: Divane Mehmed descends from Süleyman Shah who married Muṭahhara Khātūn.
    • A Konya MS genealogy (869/1464) gives Abāpūsh-i Walī as grandson of Mehmed Pasha, with a different line; Aflākī does not record the marriage.
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • Generation count: Dār al-Masnavi says 22nd generation; another site says 20th great-grandson (22nd generation).
  • (Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî))
    • The order's own account (Dār al-Masnavi): all legitimate Mevlevi shaykhs are to be affiliated with him through the International Mevlana Foundation.
    • The same account notes that independent Mevlevi groups do not recognize this authority.