ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Thughūrī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Kemper, Michael
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad al-Thughūrī (al-Ṣughūrī) (b. 1207/1792-3, d. 1299/1882) was a shaykh of the jihād -oriented branch of the Naqshbandiyya-Khālidiyya Ṣūfī brotherhood in Daghestan. The widespread Naqshbandī order was founded in Bukhara by Bahāʾ al-Dīn (d. 786/1384); its orthodox Khālidī branch was founded by Mawlānā Khālid al-Baghdādī (d. 1242/1827), a Kurd trained in India in the Mujaddidī current initiated by Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī (d. 1624), known posthumously as the "renewer" (mujaddid) of Islam in the second millennium. From