Ismāʿīl Minangkabau - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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van Bruinessen, Martin
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Ismāʿīl Minangkabau (Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdallāh al-Khālidī al-Minankābawī) was a scholar and Ṣūfī of Sumatran origin based in Mecca in the first half of the nineteenth century, who played a key role in the transmission of the Naqshbandiyya Khālidiyya Ṣūfī order to Southeast Asia. He was one of the earliest deputies of ʿAbdallāh al-Arzinjānī, Mawlānā Khālid's (d. 1827) khalīfa in Mecca, and remained affiliated with the Khālidī lodge on the hill of Abū Qubays under the latter's successor, Sulaymān al-Qirīmī. Ismāʿīl was apparently the chief