Ṭarīqa means path. It names both the inner way of purification and the orders that grew from the twelfth century, each with its lineage, its practices of remembrance and its lodges. Among the great orders are the Qādiriyya, Naqshbandiyya, Chishtiyya, Mevleviyya and Shādhiliyya.
Ṭarīqa
The way: the Sufi path, and the Sufi orders that transmit it from master to disciple.
Also: Tariqa, Sufi order