Khwajagan

Khwājagān, shortend Khwaja, Khaja(h), is a Persian title for "the Master". Khwajagan is a word often used to refer to a chain of Central Asian Naqshbandi Sufi Masters from the 10th to the 16th century. In Firdowsi´s Shahnama the word is used many times for some rulers and heroes of ancient Iran.

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

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
*" The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, (History and Guidebook of the Saints of the Golden Chain). by Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani. Kazi Publications, USA (1995) ISBN 0-934905-34-7

External links

* [http://www.naqshbandi.com/ Naqshbandi.com]
* [http://www.sufilive.com/ Sufilive.com] [http://www.spyoftheheart.com The Spy of the Heart]