Who are sufi saints

List of Sufi saints

This article is about a list of important Sufi saints koruth. For a discussion of sainthood in Islam, see Wali.

This article is about List of saints. For other uses, see List of saints (disambiguation).

Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world.[1] In the traditional Islamic view, a saint is portrayed as someone "marked by [special] divine favor [and] holiness", and who is specifically "chosen by God and endowed with exceptional gifts, such as the ability to work miracles."[2]

List

A

  • Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili
  • Ali Hisam-ad-Din Naqshbandi
  • Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan (–, 12th Sheikh of Silsila Naqshbandia Owaisiah and writer of several books and 03 Tafaseer of the Holy Qur'an)
  • Abdallah ibn Alawi al-Haddad (–, buried in Hadhramaut, author on several books on Dhikr)
  • Abdullah Ansari
  • Abdullah Shah Ghazi (d.

    , buried in Karachi)

  • Abdul Khaliq Ghajadwani (d.

    Sufi saints of india and pakistan Sufism is the name given to the mystical movement within Islam; a Sufi is a Muslim who dedicates himself to the quest after mystical union or, better said, reunion with his Creator. The ascetic outlook and practice, an indispensable preparation to mystical communion, characterized the life not only of Mohammad himself but of many of his earliest followers. Even when the rapid spread of Islam and the astonishing military conquests of neighbouring ancient kingdoms brought undreamed-of riches to the public exchequer, not a few of the leading men in the new commonwealth withstood all temptation to abandon the austere life of the desert, and their example was admired and emulated by multitudes of humbler rank. Nevertheless with the passage of time, and as Islam became increasing secularized consequent upon further victories and rapidly augmenting complications of state craft, the original ascetic impulse tended to be overwhelmed in the flood of worldly preoccupation. Farid al-Din Attar, author of the book Tadhkirat al-Auliya here presented in an abridged translation, is to be accounted amongst the greatest poets of Persia; his dimensions as a literary genius increase with the further investigation of his writings.

    , buried in Bukhara, one of the Khwajagan of the Naqshbandi order)

  • Abdul Qadir Gilani (–, buried in Baghdad, founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order)[3][4]
  • Abdul Razzaq Gilani (–, buried in Baghdad, son of Abdul Qadir Gilani, promoted the Qadiriyya order)
  • Abu Ishaq Shami (d. , buried on Mount Qasioun, founder of the Chishti Order)
  • Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (–, buried in Miana, Turkmenistan, poet who innovated the use of love poetry to express mystic concepts)
  • Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi (–, buried in Anfoushi, one of the four master saints of Egypt)
  • Abul Hasan Hankari (–, buried in Baghdad, noted scholar and miracle worker)
  • Adam Khaki (14th century, buried in Badarpur, Assam, took part in the Conquest of Sylhet and preached at Badarpur)
  • Afaq Khoja (–, buried in Xinjiang, opposed the Chagatai Khanate's attempt to enforce Yassa law on Muslims)
  • Ahamed Muhyudheen Noorishah Jeelani (–, buried in Hyderabad, India, founder of the Nooriya Sufi order)
  • Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (–, buried in the Bareilly Sharif Dargah, reformer in British India)
  • Ahmad Ghazali ( to or , buried in Qazvin, younger brother of the more famous Al-Ghazali, reasoned that as God is absolute beauty, to adore any object of beauty is to participate in a divine act of love)
  • Ahmad al-Tijani (–, buried in Fez, Morocco), founder of the Tijaniyyah order)
  • Ahmadou Bamba (–, buried next to the Great Mosque of Touba, lead a pacifist struggle against the French colonial empire)
  • Ahmad Yasawi (–, buried in the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, poet, founder of Turkish Sufism)
  • Akshamsaddin (–, buried in Göynük, tutor and advisor to Mehmed the Conqueror)
  • Akhundzada Saif-ur-Rahman Mubarak (–, buried in Lahore, founder of the Saifia Sufi order)
  • Al-Busiri (–, buried in Alexandria, poet, author of the Qasida Burda)
  • Wasif Ali Wasif (–, buried in Lahore, was a teacher, writer, poet, and Sufi saint from Pakistan)
  • Habib al-Ajami (d.

    , buried in Basra)

  • Abu Bakr al-Aydarus (–, buried in Aden, the patron saint of Aden, credited with introducing Qadiri Sufism to Ethiopia and coffee to the Arab world)
  • Ahmad al-Badawi (–, buried in Ahmad Al-Badawi Mosque, most popular saint in Egypt)
  • Khwaja Ahrar (– AD), played a significant role in establishing the Naqshbandi Order
  • Al-Ghazali (–, buried in Tus, Iran, considered a Mujaddid, author of The Revival of the Religious Sciences and The Incoherence of the Philosophers, influenced early modern European criticism of Aristotelian physics)
  • Al-Hallaj (–, ashes scattered in the Tigris, imprisoned and executed after requesting "O Muslims, save me from God" and declaring "I am the Truth")
  • Ali Hujwiri (–/77, buried in Lahore, Pakistan, author of Kashf ul Mahjoob, spread Sufism throughout the Indian Subcontinent)[5]
  • Ali-Shir Nava'i (–, buried in Herat, author of Muhakamat al-Lughatayn and founder of Turkic literature)
  • Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani (–, illiterate mystic who influenced Avicenna, Rumi, and Jami)
  • Al-Qushayri (–, buried in Nishapur, author who distinguished four layers of Quranic interpretation and defended the historical lineage of Sufism)
  • Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari (–, buried near Haridwar, founder of the Sabiriya branch of the Chishti order)[6]
  • Amir Khusrau (–, buried in the Nizamuddin Dargah, influential musician, considered the "father of Urdu literature")[7]
  • Amir Kulal (–, buried near Bukhara, taught Timur and Baha' al-Din Naqshband)
  • Attar of Nishapur (–, buried in the Mausoleum of Attar of Nishapur, author of The Conference of the Birds and the hagiographic Tazkirat al-Awliya)
  • Aurangzeb (–), buried in Khuldabad, also known as Jinda Pir.

    Author of Fatwa e Alamgir.

  • Azan Faqir (17th century, buried in Sivasagar near the Brahmaputra River, reformer who stabilized Islam in the Assam region)[8]
  • Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (–, expounded on the works of Ibn Arabi)
  • Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi
  • Abdul Aziz bin Hars bin Asad Yemeni Tamimi
  • Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi
  • Abu Bakr Shibli
  • Ahmad Zarruq
  • Arabati Baba Teḱe
  • Ata Hussain Fani Chishti (–, buried in Gaya (India)) was a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in South Asia.

B

  • Baba Fakruddin (–, buried in Penukonda)[9]
  • Baba Kuhi of Shiraz (–)
  • Baba Shadi Shaheed (17th century, first Chib Rajput to convert to Islam, married a daughter of Babur)
  • Sheikh Bedreddin (–, buried in Istanbul in , revolted against Mehmed I)
  • Baha' al-Din Naqshband (–, buried in Bukhara, founder of the Naqshbandi order)
  • Balım Sultan (d.

    /, buried in Nevşehir Province, co-founder of the Bektashi Order)

  • Bahauddin Zakariya (–, buried in the Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya, spread the Suhrawardiyya order through South Asia)[10]
  • Bande Nawaz (–, buried in Gulbarga, spread the Chishti Order to southern India)[11]
  • Khwaja Baqi Billah (–, buried in Delhi, spread the Naqshbandi order into India)[12]
  • Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (d.

    , founder of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia)

  • Bayazid Bastami (//9, buried in Shrine of Bayazid Bostami, noted for his ideas on spiritual intoxication)
  • Bibi Jamal Khatun (d. or , lived in Sehwan Sharif, sister of Mian Mir)[13]
  • Bodla Bahar (–, buried in Sehwan Sharif, features in the miracle stories of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar)
  • Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (–, buried in Panipat)[14]
  • Bulleh Shah (–, buried in Kasur, regarded as "the father of Punjabi enlightenment")

D

F

G

H

  • Hafez (–, buried in Tomb of Hafez, highly popular antinomian Persian poet whose works are regularly quoted and even used for divination)
  • Haji Huud (–, buried in Patan, Gujarat, helped spread Islam in India)[18]
  • Haji Bayram Veli (–, buried in Ankara, founder of the Bayramiye order)
  • Haji Bektash Veli (–, buried in the Haji Bektash Veli Complex, revered by both Alevis and Bektashis)
  • Hasan al-Basri (–, buried in Az Zubayr, highly important figure in the development of Sunni Sufism)
  • Hazrat Babajan (d.

    Sufi saints biography pdf

    Tomb of Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani. Shaikh Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani was the greatest Master of his time. He was a Perfect Knower arif kamil in Sufism and accomplished in asceticism. Shaikh Abdul Jamil, his father, was one of the most famous scholars of his time, and his mother was a princess, the daughter of the King of Seljuk Anatolia. He was born in Ghujdawan, a town near Bukhara now Uzbekistan.

    , buried in Pune, master to Meher Baba)

  • Hayreddin Tokadi
  • Yusuf Hamdani (–, buried in Merv)
  • Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (–, buried in Khatlon Region, spread the Kubrawiya order throughout Asia)[19]
  • Usman Harooni
  • Ali Hujwiri

I

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K

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N

O

P

Q

R

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T

U

W

Y

Z

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