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The 22 pages that link to Sufi orders, each with the reason it gives.

• SufismBroader topic: Orders preserve methods of training and collective devotional life.

• Islam in West AfricaRelated: Sufi networks connected West African communities through devotional practice, education, and religious authority.

• SamaNarrower topic: Different orders preserve distinct forms and rules for sama.

• IslamizationRelated: Sufi teachers and institutions helped introduce Islam to local communities in several regions.

• Sufi musicNarrower topic: Orders transmit the ritual settings and local conventions in which Sufi music is practiced.

• MawlidCompared with: Many Sufi communities have embraced Mawlid gatherings and poetry as devotional practice.

• QadiriyyaNarrower topic: The Qadiriyya is one enduring example of this institutional form.

• SilsilaNarrower topic: A silsila connects individual teachers within an order’s broader structure.

• Islam in ChinaRelated: Sufi orders shaped influential forms of worship and religious authority among Muslims in northwest China.

• Islamization of IranRelated: Sufi networks later spread Islamic practice and devotion through Iranian towns and regions.

• Ajuran SultanateRelated: Sufi networks helped circulate religious authority across Somali settlements.

• Ibn ArabiNarrower topic: Some Sufi communities incorporated interpretations of Ibn Arabi into their teaching and practice.

• Mohammed Abdullah HassanRelated: His religious network drew on Sufi affiliations, though accounts differ about its precise institutional character.

• Emir AbdelkaderNarrower topic: Abdelkader’s religious authority drew on the Qadiriyya Sufi tradition.

• Junayd of BaghdadRelated: Later lineages invoked Junayd as an early authority for disciplined communal Sufism.

• Al-QushayriNarrower topic: His account helped shape later understandings of Sufi practice, though it predates the mature orders.

• SuhrawardiyyaNarrower topic: This is the organizational form the Suhrawardiyya established and transmitted.

• History of DagestanRelated: Sufi networks later organized resistance and political authority across Dagestan’s mountain communities.

• Ibn al-FaridRelated: Sufi communities helped preserve and transmit his poems and their interpretations.

• Isabelle EberhardtNarrower topic: Eberhardt joined the Qadiriyya, a Sufi order active in North Africa.

• Islamic schools and branchesBroader topic: Orders transmit devotional disciplines that cross legal and regional boundaries.

• Muhammad ibn Ali al-SanusiNarrower topic: This broader institutional form explains the Sanusiyya’s structure and transmission.