Khalwatiyya in Indonesia - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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van Bruinessen, Martin
Leiden
Brill
(1,072 words)
The Khalwatiyya Ṣūfī order was first introduced in present-day Indonesia by Yusuf Makassar (Yūsuf al-Maqāsarī, d. 1111/1699-1700), a scholar of aristocratic background from Gowa, in South Celebes (Sulawesi). He spent more than two decades (c.1055-81/1645-70) studying in the Arab world and was initiated in most of the important Ṣūfī orders of his day. He received in Damascus his ijāza (licence to teach) for the Khalwatiyya from Ayyūb b. Aḥmad al-Khalwatī al-Qurashī (d. 1071/1661), who represented the major line of