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A Bukharan master of the Ḵᵛājagān line; one of the four successors of ʿAbd-al-Ḵāleq Ḡojdovānī, regarded as the head of the Ḵᵛājagān, and the youngest of them. In the source his nisba also appears in the form “Rīvgarawī”.
Like almost all the masters of the Ḵᵛājagān, he was born and lived in Bukhara.
Ḡojdovānī's other three successors were Ḵᵛāja Aḥmad Ṣeddīq (d. 657), Ḵᵛāja Awlīā-ye Kabīr, known as Awlīā-ye Kalān (d. 627), and Ḵᵛāja Solaymān (Salmān) Karmīnī (d. 658). Three of these four trained successors of their own and so continued the chain of the Ḵᵛājagān.
According to Faḵr-al-Dīn ʿAlī Ṣafī's Rašaḥāt and Moḥammad Yūsof Mojaddedī's Jawāher-e Naqšbandīya, he died in 657.
His Circle of Influence — ʿĀref Rīvgarī stands at the head of the chain of Ḵᵛājagān masters that leads to the Naqšbandīs. For this reason Naqšbandī hagiographers and compilers of biographical dictionaries paid particular attention to him and his successors and recorded notable information about them. His successor was Ḵᵛāja Maḥmūd Anjīr Faḡnawī, from the village of Anjīrfaḡnī in the Wābkanī district of Bukhara; from him the chain passed to ʿAlī Rāmītanī.
His Works — A treatise entitled ʿĀref-nāma is attributed to him (Mojaddedī). For the hagiographical tradition about Ḡojdovānī and Rīvgarī the source refers to the Maqāmāt-e ʿAbd-al-Ḵāleq Ḡojdovānī wa ʿĀref Rīvgarī, published by Saʿīd Nafīsī.
Differing Scholarly Views
Date of death — The source consulted, relying on the Rašaḥāt and Mojaddedī, places his death in 657. The atlas's existing record carries an earlier year drawn from another source, and that year does not appear in the source consulted. The atlas does not choose between them; the difference has been referred to the scholarly board.
Sources
- Dānešnāme-ye Jahān-e Eslām (Dânişnâme-i Cihân-ı İslâm · Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam) — Afsāne Monfared · vol. 16, entry “خواجگان، سلسله”
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