Taj al-Din b. Zakariyya al-Uthmani al-Hindi, tahqiq and analysis of his work: Adab al-mashiykha wa?l-muridin

It is widely accepted that the successful dissemination of the Naqshbandiyya in India can be attributed Baki Billah who belonged to the Naqshbandiyya-Ahrariyya order. His prominent successor, Taj al-Din b. Zakariyya al-Uthmani, continued to encourage the spread the Naqshbandiyya order in India, as well as introducing it to the Middle East and Hijaz as a result of his travels. Adressing himself to both Arabic speakers and mujawirun from his ribat which he built in piedmont of Quayqian Mountain in Mecca, Taj al-Din al-Uthmani was more successful at spreading and institutionalizing his order than his predecessors who travelled to the Hijaz. Through his successors, Taj al-Din al-Uthmani effectuated the intitutionalization of Naqshbandiyya in Haremeyn, Yemen, Syria and Egypt and it was through them that his silsila was transmitted to China and Indonesia. Moreover, he was able to reach out to the Arabic-speaking world by means of his translations of Naqshbandî literature as well as the books and dissertations he wrote relating to the pillars, customs and methods of the order.this work centres on the life of this significant individual, his works, order and one of his two treatises of which, over time, numerous copies were made bu hand: Adab al-mashiykha wa?l-muridin and its tahqiq and analysis.