Nazim Al Haqqani


Mehmet Nazim Adil , commonly known as Shaykh Nazim, was a Turkish Cypriot Sufi Muslim sheykh and spiritual leader of the Naqshbandi tariqa.

Shaykh Nazim was born in Larnaca, Cyprus, on April 21, 1922 CE . He traced his paternal lineage to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, through the Sufi saint Abdul Qadir Jilani. He further traced his maternal line to Muhammads companion Abu Bakr asSiddiq who has special significance in the Naqshbandi Sufi order through the Sufi saint and poet Jalaluddin Rumi. He was first exposed to Sufism as a young child by his paternal grandfather, who was a Sufi shaykh in the Qadiriyya order.

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