Babajanov B. Biographies of Makhdūm-i A‘ẓam al-Kāsānī al-Dahbīdī, Shaykh of the Sixteenth-Century Naqshbandīya // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 5. No. 2. June 1999. P. 3—8.
So far, biographical works on the Ṣūfī shaykhs of Central
Asia have been studied quite insufficiently, notwithstanding
that their significance as a valuable source of information
has been noted by many scholars. At present, however, with
scholars paying increasing attention to the dynamics of the
religious situation in the region and to the history of the Ṣūfī
brotherhoods in particular, interest in the hagiographic literature
has grown noticeabl. But the greater part of the
source material remains unknown to specialists, primarily
because specialized works on such sources appear very
rarely. Even more rare are editions of Central Asian Ṣūfī
hagiographies, and those published, mainly in Iran and Turkey,
do not always meet the standards of critical editions.
This is especially true of the biographies (maqāmāt) of the
shaykhs of the most influential brotherhood in Central Asia,
the Naqshbandīya, which were written in the second half of
the sixteenth-nineteenth centuries...
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