Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order
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The Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order is a modern tariqa (dervish order) of Sufism. It is not a branch of the Jerrahi tariqah of Istanbul, Turkey, and was founded in the early 1980s by American Sufis Lex Hixon ("Nur al-Anwar") and Fariha al Jerrahi after they received direct transmission from their teacher, Muzaffer Ozak, the Grand Sheikh of the Jerrahi at that time. Muzaffer Ozak was the 19th successor to Muhammad Nureddin al-Jerrahi (1678-1720), the founding pir of the Jerrahi Order.
General[]
The Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order is based at Dergah al-Farah in New York City.[1]
After its establishment, the order quickly found followers in the United States and Mexico. As the order grew, they demonstrated tolerance of seekers of God from any religion, while remaining faithful to their Ottoman Islamic roots and they organized meetings with members of other religious communities.
When Nur al-Anwar died in 1995, Sheikha Fariha Fatima al-Jerrahi, of New York succeeded him as leader of the order.
Sufi Books[]
In New York City, members of the order run a bookstore called Sufi Books, where they carry a large selection of books on Sufism and religious mysticism from Pir Press, the publishing house also run by the order.
Dergah al-Farah is located at 245 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013 in Tribeca. Feisal Abdul Rauf served as Imam of Masjid al-Farah from 1983 to 2009. He is one of the people behind the Cordoba Initiative.[2]
Locations[]
The Nur Ashki Jerrahi Order has Dervish communities in the following locations:
- New York City
- Mexico City
- Albuquerque, NM
- Atlanta, GA
- Boulder, CO
- Chicago, IL
- Crestone, CO
- Honolulu, HI
- Kansas City, MO
- Lansing, MI
- Las Vegas, NM
- Minneapolis, MN
- Nashville, TN
- Oakland, CA
- Orange County, CA
- Portland, OR
- Washington, DC
- Liverpool, England
- Illawarra, Australia
- Cuernavaca, Morelos
- Oaxaca, Oaxaca
- Singapore
References[]
- ^ Corbett, Rosemary R. (2016). Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the "Ground Zero Mosque" Controversy. Stanford University Press.
- ^ Corbett, Rosemary R. (2016). Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the "Ground Zero Mosque" Controversy. Stanford University Press.
External links[]
- www.nurashkijerrahi.org The official website of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order.
- www.pirpress.com The official website of Pir Press.
- www.sufibooks.com The official website of the Sufi Books: World Mystical Traditions Bookstore, in New York City.
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