Mevlana Halid-i Bagdadi

Halid-i Bagdadi, Halid Bagdadi, Mevlâna Khalid or al-Khalid (1777–1826), was the major Kurdish^[1] shaykh in the chain of initiation of the Khalidi sub-order of the Naqshbandi.^[2]

He was born in Shahrizur (present-day Iraq)^[3], was an influential Ottoman mystic, who is believed by his followers to be capable of time travel. His best known books are Mecd-i Talid (Big Birth) and Sems'u Sumus (The Sun of All Suns).

Sources

1. ^ Sadık Albayrak, Meşrutiyetten Cumhuriyete Meşihat Şeriat Tarikat Kavgası, Mizan Yayınevi, 1994, p. 323. (Turkish).
2. ^ Martin van Bruinessen, Julia Day Howell, Sufism and the 'Modern' in Islam, I.B.Tauris, 2007, ISBN 9781850438540, p. 44.
3. ^ Richard Tapper, Islam in Modern Turkey: Religion, Politics, and Literature in a Secular State, I.B. Tauris, 1991, ISBN 9781850433217, p. 129..

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Name	Bagdadi, Mevlana Halid-i
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Date of birth	1777
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Date of death	1826
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