Nasuhi
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The Nasuhi are a sub order of the Khalwati Sufi order. Their founder Pir Nasuhi was a prolific author who wrote a number of works including a commentary upon the Qur'an he passed away and was buried at his Tekke in Uskudar in Istanbul.
The order was not a widespread order and had only a number of Tekkes in Istanbul and Bursa.
The centre of the Nasuhi order was in Dogancilar a sub district of Uskudar, Istanbul where the grand Sheikh of the order sat at the Nasuhi Tekke.
When Turkey became a republic all Tekkes were closed. The Nasuhi Tekke was later opened in the form of a Mosque although much of the rear of the Tekke complex remains closed to the public. The resting place of Sheikh Nasuhi remains a place of pilgrimage for pious Muslims in Turkey of one of the less well known Muslim saints in Istanbul (especially in comparision to Aziz Mahmud Hudayi. He is still an important Sheikh in the Khalwati order.
