entity_id,canonical_name,greek_name,tradition,entity_type,category,primary_domains,tags,cult_scope,primary_period,evidence_confidence,review_status,inclusion_basis,earth_association_score,chthonic_flag,serpent_flag,short_note,entity_class ENT_ISL_ABDAL,Abdal,,Islamic/Sufi,Hidden saint collective,Holy Figure,hidden saints; substitution; protection; cosmic order,,Sufi/Islamic,,A,candidate_verified_name,Islamic esoteric saint collective,1,0,0,Hidden saintly figures in Sufi cosmology.,collective ENT_ISL_RIJAL_GHAYB,Rijal al-Ghayb,,Islamic/Sufi,Hidden saint collective,Holy Figure,hidden men; invisible saints; spiritual governance,,Sufi/Islamic,,A,candidate_verified_name,Islamic esoteric saint collective,1,0,0,Hidden/invisible saintly men in esoteric Islamic traditions.,collective ENT_SUF_ALAWIYYA,Alawiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Shadhili-Darqawi branch; Algerian/Mediterranean spread; Western reception,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Sufi order founded by Ahmad al-Alawi, a branch of the Darqawiyya; widely influential including on European converts.",collective ENT_SUF_BADAWIYYA,Badawiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Egyptian popular Sufism; saint-veneration; the Tanta mawlid,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Egyptian Sufi order centred on the shrine of Ahmad al-Badawi at Tanta, host to one of the largest mawlid festivals in Islam.",collective ENT_SUF_BEKTASHI,Bektashiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Anatolian heterodoxy; Alevi devotion; veneration of Ali; antinomian piety,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Heterodox Anatolian Sufi order traced to Hajji Bektash Wali, later linked to the Janissaries and to Alevi communities.",collective ENT_SUF_CHISHTI,Chishtiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,sama (audition); service to the poor; love of God; South Asian Sufism,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Sufi order rooted in Chisht (Afghanistan) and established in India by Mu'in al-Din Chishti, central to the Islamization of the subcontinent.",collective ENT_SUF_DARQAWIYYA,Darqawiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Sufism / Sufi tariqa,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Moroccan revivalist branch of the Shadhili-Jazuli tradition founded by Mawlay al-Arabi al-Darqawi (d.1823), marked by ascetic poverty, ecstatic dhikr, and a renewal of the master-disciple bond; influential across North Africa and into the later Shadhili-Alawi line.",collective ENT_SUF_HAQQANI,Naqshbandi-Haqqani,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Global Naqshbandi-Khalidi branch; transnational Sufism,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Transnational Naqshbandi-Khalidi suborder led by Nazim al-Haqqani; a major vehicle of Naqshbandi Sufism in the modern West.,collective ENT_SUF_KHALWATIYYA,Khalwatiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Sufism / Sufi tariqa,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Order named for the practice of khalwa (spiritual retreat); spread widely across the Ottoman empire and Egypt in the early-modern period, producing many revival sub-branches. A principal vehicle of Ottoman-era Sufi piety and the seven-fold dhikr of the divine names.",collective ENT_SUF_KUBRAWI,Kubrawiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,visionary mysticism; colours of the soul; Central Asian Sufism,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Central Asian Sufi order founded by Najm al-Din Kubra, noted for its visionary psychology of luminous colours.",collective ENT_SUF_MOURIDIYYA,Mouridiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Senegalese Sufi order; Touba pilgrimage; work-as-worship ethic,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Major Senegalese Sufi order founded by Ahmadou Bamba; centred on the holy city of Touba.,collective ENT_SUF_NAQSHBANDI,Naqshbandiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,silent dhikr; sober Sufism; sharia-bound spirituality; the Khwajagan lineage,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Major Sunni Sufi tariqa traced to Baha al-Din Naqshband, distinguished by silent dhikr (dhikr-i khafi) and tracing its silsila to Abu Bakr.",collective ENT_SUF_NAQSHBANDI_MUJADDIDI,Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Sufism / Sufi tariqa,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Early-modern revivalist sub-branch of the Naqshbandiyya, named for Ahmad Sirhindi (the Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thani, 'Renewer of the Second Millennium'). Emphasized sober conformity to the Shari'a, silent dhikr, and rabita (bond to the shaykh); became the dominant Naqshbandi current across Mughal India, Central Asia, Ottoman lands, and beyond. Sub-branch of the existing ENT_SUF_NAQSHBANDI.",collective ENT_SUF_NIMATULLAHI,Ni'matullahiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Persian Sufism; wahdat al-wujud; poetry and devotion,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Persian Sufi order founded by Shah Ni'matullah Wali, the most widespread tariqa in Iran.",collective ENT_SUF_NURCU,Nurcu Movement,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Risale-i Nur readers' movement; modern Turkish faith renewal,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Faith-renewal movement of the readers of Said Nursi's Risale-i Nur; a modern Sufism-inflected community rather than a classical tariqa.,collective ENT_SUF_SANUSIYYA,Sanusiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Saharan reform tariqa; zawiya network; later Libyan state,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Reformist Sufi order founded by al-Sanusi, rooted in the teaching of Ahmad ibn Idris; politically dominant in Cyrenaica/Libya.",collective ENT_SUF_TIJANIYYA,Tijaniyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Sufism / Sufi tariqa,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Tariqa founded by Ahmad al-Tijani (d.1815) in North Africa, claiming a direct waking-vision investiture from the Prophet Muhammad (the order's distinctive 'seal of the saints' claim). One of the largest Sufi orders of West and North Africa, with its own litanies (the Wazifa and Salat al-Fatih).",collective