ABSTRACT
The Zainis were once an important Order. Evliya mentions as a divine of the time of Sultan MuJ:.tammad I. (1413-21) the Shaikh 'Abd-ul-Latif Mokadessi (Muqaddasi would mean ' of Jerusalem,' but Qudusi must be meant) bin 'Abd-ur-Ral}.man b. 'Ali b . IJhanim (Travels, i i . p. 22). But five pages farther on he mentions a Sh. 'Abd-ul-Latif Mokadessi as the Imam of Ilderim Khan. Then adding the title al-An!?iiri to the divine's names he describes how he built the Zaini-lar convent at Briisa after he had visited the tomb of f;iadr-ud-Din at Qonia, where the dead saint stretched out his hand from his grave and bade the Shaikh read the sura Ya-sin. Under Mul}.ammad 11. (1451-81) the Zainis formed, like the Naqshbandis, a militant Order, and led by Jubbah 'Ali, the spiritual guide of the Sultan of Egypt, three hundred of them, unfurling the standard of Zain-ud-Din Hafi, embarked on skins which floated on the sea, and attacked the enemy (ib. i . pt. i . p . 34) .
