ʿAbd al-Majīd b. Muḥammad al-Khānī (1847–1901) was a scion of the leading local Naqshbandī family in nineteenth-century Damascus (the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order was founded in Bukhara by Bahāʾ al-Dīn, d. 791/1389). ʿAbd al-Majīd was initiated into the path by his grandfather, Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh al-Khānī (1798–1862), the foremost Syrian disciple of the orthodox activist shaykh Khālid al-Kūrdī. Khālid (1776–1827) had brought the Naqshbandī-Mujaddidī path from India—where it was founded by Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī (c. 971–1034/1564–1624), known posthumously as the “Renovator (mujad…