People — Islamic NetworkṬabaqāt · People

The Generations · The Friends of God

سُلَيْمَان حِلْمِي تُونَاهَان

Sulaymān Ḥilmī Tunahan

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

1305 – 1379 AH / 1888 – 1959

his portrait is written, not drawn

The Turkish master who at the seal of this chain revived Qur'anic teaching across Anatolia in the early Republic, and whose community recites this Silsila-i Sadat to this day.

stationWalī
born1305 AH
returned1379 AH

His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.