The arrival and developement of Khalwatiyya in Egypt

The Order of Khalwatiyya was stablished by Mohammad-ibn al-khalwati and Seraj-o-Din khalwati in Azerbaijan. Later this order entered Egypt by Mohammad Damirtash, Shahin Khalwati and Ibrahim Golshani. Mustafa al-Bakri was considered the one who renewed the Khalwati order in the Egypt. It was wildly stablished in Egypt and had many branches that nowadays there exist 20 branches of Khalwatiyya in Egypt. We can refer to Shabraviyya, Ghasabiyya, Saviyya, Ghanamiyya and etc as its more active branches. Due to its more branches and high expansion, Khalwatiyya attracted many people and has disiple from different classess, many sufi elites are its members such as Abdol-hadi al-Ghasbi, Abdol-khalegh al-Shabravi and Ahmad al-Tayyeb. Khalwatiyya stresses on the love of Ahle-beit and its doctrine is very close to Ibn-Arabi. Its spiritual conduct based on Remembrance of God and seven Names which its number sometimes reaches to 12 or more and is the basis of these Remembrances. It also has spiritual stations which are in accordance to this Remembrance. Each Remembrance will move the disciple to higher seven Stations and different Stations as well. Having reached to these Stations, the disciple has succeeded in fulfilling courses of ethical conduct and will receive shaykh permission.