He chose this order because Gazi Husrev-beg also belonged to this school, it was very widespread and popular in Anatolia and Rumelia of his time.

Later, significant representatives of this order clashed with the Ottoman ruling elite, which is why the school changed its administration, with the sheikhs of the Naqshbandi Tariqat came to head the hanikah at the beginning of the 19th century.

In the hanikah, the dervishes, in addition to their rituals and zikr, acquired all the necessary knowledge after completing the school went all over BiH on a mission to transmit Sufi doctrine.

During the construction of the northern wing of the Đulagin Palace, today the building of the Gazi Husrev-beg Madrasa, the hanikah was almost completely destroyed.

For some time the institution was located in the premises of the musafirhana near the clock tower, which burned down on May 25, 1852, and after that the hanikah was returned to its old place.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Hanikah and the madrasa gradually grew into an educational institution of modern type.