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İsmailağa
İsmailağa Jamia or İsmail Ağa Jamia is a branch of ''the Gümüşhanevî Dergâh of Nakşibendi- Khālidī Ṭarīqah ( Sufi Order) in Turkey.
It takes its name from the İsmailağa Mosque in Fatih, Istanbul. It is aligned with the Naqshbandi spiritual order of Sunni Islam Sufism in the silsilah of Khalidiyya and is led by Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu, imam of the İsmailağa Mosque from 1954 to 1996. It has significant influence over daily life in few streets of Fatih, the capital district of Istanbul. However, once in 2006 a politician had described the whole district of Fatih as an "İsmailağa republic". There are communities in a number of other cities in Turkey, including Erzincan.