Home›Sufi Orders›Origin Period Start Year›18th centuryBrowse By18th centuryThis page groups religious orders by the year they were founded. Wikipedia notes that "religious life began in the Latin Church as early as the 3rd century, with the Order of Saint Benedict being formed in the 6th, in 529." Browsing by founding year lets a visitor compare how old one order is against another.Facts18th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedReligious Orders 118th centuryFilter Results7 entriesFounded ByAllAhmad al-Tijani (1)Who may joinAllOpen to All Genders (5)Kind of orderAllSufi Orders (7)PolityAllSilsila (The Chain of Spiritual Descent) (7)Originated InAllAlgeria (1)China (1)Morocco (3)Turkey (1)Parent Order / Branch OfAllNaqshbandi Order (1)Qadiriyya Order (1)TraditionAllSufism (6)Doctrinal PositionAllAffiliation to one order only, forfeited by taking a second (1)An interior path (tasawwuf) pursued within the schools of law (7)Remembrance of God practised aloud and in company (4)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (7)ApostolateAllSpiritual Direction and Dhikr (7)Teaching and Education (1)Liturgical LanguageAllClassical Arabic (7)Ordination PracticeAllAuthority conferred by initiation rather than by ordination (7)Rooted InAllSufism (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 7Budshishiyya18th centuryDarqawiyya18th centuryIdrisiyya18th centuryJahriyya18th centuryJerrahi Order18th centuryRahmaniyya18th centuryTijaniyyah18th centurySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeCategory: Religious OrdersComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.