In the Name of God, The Merciful, The Mercy Giving.

Greetings to All Whom These Letters Shall Come!

This page is dedicated to

the Gumushkhanewi Dargah
of
the Khalidiyya Branch
of
the Naqshbandi Sufi Order.

This page is not an official page of the Gumushkhanewi Dargah or Shaikh Cosan. The official site for the tariqa is below:
www.iskenderpasa.com
(mainly in Turkish).

The Presiding Shaikh of the Dargah is

Muharrem Nureddin COSAN

the son of the late Shaikh

Prof. Dr. Mahmud Es'ad COSAN
(1938-2001)

"Our mission is to live Islam without deviating from its path. We follow the sunnah of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh); we avoid the extremes, utilize contemporary tools and means of all kinds, and uphold god-consciousness and piety."
(Prof. Dr. M. Es'ad Cosan)

The Principles of Our Path

Summary of Daily Duties

The Golden Chain of Spiritual Guidance

The Dargah is named after the Great Sufi Master

Ahmad Ziyaeddin Gumush-khanewi (1813 - 1893).

A Brief History of the Dargah

The Gerat Master Ahmed Ziyaeddin Gumushkanewi initially used his small room in the Mahmud Pasha Madrasa in Istanbul for instruction and guidance. Later, the room became too small for the increasing number of the desciples. With the efforts of Hasan Hilmi Kastamoni, he established a tekke at the Fatma Sultan Mosque. Later on this mosque became known as the "Gumushkhaneli Dargah." The Dargah became a school for studying the traditions of the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh). Important personages attended the Hadith Lectures in the tekke.

Although the tekkes were officially closed, the instruction and the guidance of the order continued. First, the Damad Ibrahim Pasha Mosque with Shaikh Hasib Effendi, then the Ummu Gulsum mosque with Shaikh Abdul'aziz Effendi became the center of the Gumushkhanawi Dargah. In 1958, then presiding Shaikh Muhammad Zahid Burusawi moved to Iskenderpasha Mosque in the same neighborhood. Since then, Iskenderpasha has been the Dargah of the order.

The late Shaikh Mahmud Es'ad Cosan spent a great deal of time abroad -- from Australia to Europe and America-- providing spiritual guidance to the masses as well as to the novices and the advanced in the sufi order. He passed away on February 4, 2001 in a traffic accident in Australia--May Almighty Allah bless his soul.

You will find some links to the works by Shaikh Mahmud Es'ad Cosan on this page. Please keep in mind that this page is not an official page of the Gumushkhanewi Dargah, Shaikh Muharram Nureddin Cosan or Shaikh Mahmud Es'ad Cosan. The information presented here has been gathered by Hasan El Sinjani from various sources some of which have the links below:

www.iskenderpasa.com (Official page of the tariqa--mainly in Turkish)

www.sonuyari.org (Son Uyari Gazetesi -- Turkish)

www.dervisan.com (Turkish)
www.zikrullah.com (Turkish)
www.cilehane.com (Turkish)

Shaikh Mahmud Es'ad Cosan declared the Year 2000 as "Tawheed (Unity) Year."

"Let's work for the Tawheed Year"

"Let the Year 2000 be the Unity Year"

Commentaries by Shaikh Mahmud Es'ad Cosan (in English)

Friday Discourse (in English)

Qur'anic Study Lectures (in Turkish)

38 Online Books (in Turkish)

We intend to have some of the recent lectures available in English in near future.