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Muhammad Uthman Siraj al-Din Naqshbandi[a] (1896, Biyara, safi abad javanroud iran – 1997, Istanbul, Turkey), nicknamed Siraj al-Din al-Thani,[b] meaning the second Siraj al-Din, in honor of his great-grandfather Uthman Siraj al-Din Naqshbandi, was an Islamic scholar, mystic of the Naqshbandi order, and leader of the Sipay Rizgari militant group.[1][2][3][4]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).When sheikh 'Alā al-Dīn died in 1954, he was succeeded by his son sheikh Muḥammad 'Uthmān Sirāj al-Dīn II (1314/1896-1417/1997), who was already a well-known and established sufi leader. Sheikh 'Uthmān II was deeply learned in Islamic theology as well as in Kurdish and Persian poetry. He was, moreover, a skillful physician with wide knowledge of herbal medicine. (...) He spent the last seven or eight years of his life in Istanbul, where he died on 30 January, 1997. He was buried inside his residence, close to the khānaqāh in Istanbul. (...) Sheikh 'Uthmān was named after his great-grandfather, 'Uthmān Sirāj al-Dīn I.