that the cübbe they had so carefully guarded all these years as a trust had found its true owner, and she handed it over to him. Bediuzzaman recalled in a letter that when he had received his diploma on completing his studies, he had been too young to don the scholar's gown and turban. Now fifty-six years later Mevlana Halid had dressed him in his own cübbe over a hundred year distance.
Mevlana Halid was the most important figure in Naksibendi sufism after Seyh Ahmed Sirhindi, Imam-i Rabbani, Bediuzzaman's spiritual link with whom has been mentioned in several contexts. Born a hundred or so years later than Imam-i Rabbani, who was known the Regenerator of the Second Millenium, Mevlana Halid was recognized by many as the Regenerator or Renewer of the following century. The movement he started was one of renewal and became very influential in the eastern Ottoman Empire. In a short piece, one of Bediuzzaman's students, Samli Hafiz, pointed out some of the parallels, and differences, between Bediuzzaman and Mevlana Halid, which show that indeed the cübbe had found its true owner. The main ones are as follows. The dates are according to the Rumi calendar:
Mevlana Halid was born in 1193, in 1224 went to the capital of India, Cihanabad, where he entered the Naksi Order and its revivalist (müceddidi) branch in particular. In 1238 "he attracted