The phrase "attract disciples" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to teaching, mentorship, or leadership, where someone is drawing followers or students to their cause or philosophy.
Example: "The charismatic leader was able to attract disciples who were eager to learn from his teachings."
Alternatives: "draw followers" or "gather students".
Others attract disciples.
Masters (called sheikhs or pīrs) were beginning to attract disciples (murīds) to their way.
Those heady days were dominated by the personalities of two former scholarship athletes, Jack Scott and Harry Edwards, who went on to earn doctorates and attract disciples.
Mr. Hill is imposing enough to attract disciples all by himself, and that's what has happened in the last few years.
The soundtrack, this time round, is being handled by Radiohead's Thom Yorke, but 40 years on from the original, there's something about Goblin's timeless sledgehammer of a soundtrack that continues to attract disciples, young and old alike.
His efforts to educate the Australian musical public in the mid-1930s were indifferently received, and did not attract disciples; writing in 2010, the academic and critic Roger Covell identifies only one significant contemporary Australian musician – the English-born horn player, pianist and conductor David Stanhope – working in the Grainger idiom.
In the decade between his mental breakdown and his death in 1900, Nietzsche's ideas attracted disciples such as Kessler, who arranged to have a death mask of the philosopher made just before Nietzsche was buried.
In the twilight of his life the writer has ascended from man of letters to spiritual guru, attracting disciples to a vaguely defined movement led by Vladimir Chertkov (Mr. Giamatti).
His extended periods of ecstasy and his strong personality combined to attract many disciples, and at the age of 22 he proclaimed himself the messiah.
Wang had begun to attract devoted disciples even before his exile to Guizhou, and they gradually compiled the Record for Practice (the anthology of his sayings, correspondence, and dialogues that is one of our primary sources for Wang's philosophy).
In the course of his journeys he attracted many disciples, some of whom accompanied him on a second pilgrimage to Mecca.
