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Abu al Barakat Sayyid Imam Ali Shah (1798-1865) was a senior Indian Sufi Saint. He was of the Qadiri Naqshbandi Sufi Order. He is from Rattar Chhattar...

Waris Ali Shah (1817–1905) was a Sufi saint from Dewa, Barabanki, India, and the founder of the Warsi Sufi order. He traveled to many places specially...

Shaikh Mihr, Shah Sharafuddeen Bu 'Ali Qalandar and Sultan Musa Shaikh Encyclopaedia of Sufism: Great Sufi saints : Sarmad & Bawa, Masood Ali Khan, S. Ram...

referred to as Barī Imām or Barī Sarkār (1617 – 1705), was a 17th-century Punjabi Muslim Sufi ascetic. He is venerated as the patron saint of Islamabad, Pakistan...

Bulleh Shah lived after the Punjabi Sufi poet and saint Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1179–1266) and lived in the same period as other Punjabi Sufi poet Sultan...

Sufi saints or Wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. In the traditional Islamic...

sandy hill in Clifton. It was Syed Nadir Ali Shah, a revered Sufi saint belonging to the Qalandariyya Sufi Order of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, who became...

is established. It is through Muhammad that Sufis aim to learn about, understand and connect with God. Ali is regarded as one of the major figures amongst...

Pir Meher Ali Shah (Urdu: پیر مہر على شاهؓ‬; 14 April 1859 – May 1937), was a Punjabi Sufi scholar and mystic poet from Punjab, British India (present-day...

Shah Hussain (Punjabi: شاہ حسین (Shahmukhi); ਸ਼ਾਹ ਹੁਸੈਨ (Gurmukhi); 1538 – 1599), also known as Madhoo Lal Hussain, was a 16th-century Punjabi Sufi poet...

Shah Inayat Qadri Shattari (Punjabi: شاہ عنایت قادری, also romanized as Enayat Shah; c. 1643 – 1728) was a Punjabi Sufi scholar, saint and philosopher...

son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muhammad's daughter Fatima, as well as a younger brother of Hasan ibn Ali, Husayn is regarded as the third Imam (leader)...

List of Sufi Saints of South Asia Islam in Pakistan Islam in Bangladesh Islam in India Sufi Saints of Aurangabad Moinuddin Chishti Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani...

Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddith Dehlavi (11 October 1746 – 5 June 1824) was an Indian Sunni Muslim Scholar and Sufi Saint. He is known as the Muhaddith and...

revered member of the Bayt (Household) of Muhammad. Scholars, Saints, Sufis and Imams alike, all spoke of him in respectful terms. When the ascetic Umayyad...

eldest son of Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Bāqir, the fifth Shīʿīte Imam, who was a descendant of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, and Fāṭima...

twelfth Imam, however, possibly because of a related hadith from the tenth Imam, Ali al-Hadi. Until their deaths, the tenth and eleventh Shia Imams (Ali al-Hadi...

al-Sadiq. The Naqshbandi Sufi Order is distinguished from other Sunni schools by their adherence to the Imamate of the 12th Imam Muhammad bin Hasan al Mahdi...

Hindus. Ali Hujwiri was born in Ghazni, in present-day Afghanistan, in around 1009 to Uthman ibn Ali or Bu Ali. As is common with Sufi saints, his father...

built over the grave of a revered religious figure, often a Sufi saint or dervish. Sufis often visit the shrine for ziyarat, a term associated with religious...