Khwajagan
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Khwājagān is the Persianized plural form of the Arabic title Khwaja, "the Master". Khwajagan is a word often used to refer to a chain of Central Asian Naqshbandi Sufi Masters from the 11th to the 16th century.
G.I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way is associated by some authors such as Idries Shah and John Godolphin Bennett as originating with the Khwajagan.
Some prominent Central Asian Khwajagan were:
- Yusuf Hamdani
- Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi
- Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani
- Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari
- Amir Kulal
- Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami
[edit] Bibliography
- Beads of Dews from the Source of Life by Mawlana Ali ibn Husain Safi ISBN188221621-0
- The Way of the Sufi by Idries Shah ISBN 0-900860-80-4
- Gurdjieff: A Very Great Enigma by J.G. Bennett ISBN 0877282161
- Masters Of Wisdom: An Esoteric History of the Spiritual Unfolding of Life on This Planet by J.G. Bennett ISBN 0877284660
- Masters Of Wisdom of Central Asia by Hasan Shusud ISBN 0900306939
- The Teachers of Gurdjieff by Rafael Lefort ISBN 0877282137
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