Sufi saints or Wali ( ar, ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading

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throughout the world. In the traditional Islamic view, a saint is portrayed as someone "marked by pecialdivine favor ... ndholiness", and who is specifically "chosen by God and endowed with exceptional gifts, such as the ability to work miracles."Radtke, B., "Saint", in: ''Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān'', General Editor: Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C..

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* Baba Fakruddin (1169–1295, buried in Penukonda) * Baba Kuhi of Shiraz (948-1037) * Baba Shadi Shaheed (17th century, first Chib

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to convert to Islam, married a daughter of

Babur Babur ( fa, , lit= tiger, translit= Bābur; ; 14 February 148326 December 1530), born Mīrzā Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad, was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through hi ...

) * Sheikh Bedreddin (1359–1420, buried in

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Mehmed I Mehmed I ( 1386 – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi ( ota, چلبی محمد, "the noble-born") or Kirişçi ( el, Κυριτζής, Kyritzis, "lord's son"), was the Ottoman sultan from 1413 to 1421. The fourth son of Sultan Bayezid ...

) * Baha' al-Din Naqshband (1318–1389, buried in

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, founder of the

Naqshbandi The Naqshbandi ( fa, نقشبندی)), Neqshebendi ( ku, نه‌قشه‌به‌ندی), and Nakşibendi (in Turkish) is a major Sunni order of Sufism. Its name is derived from Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari. Naqshbandi masters trace their ...

order) *

Balım Sultan Balım Sultan (d. circa 1517/1519) was a Bektashi sufi who established and codified the Bektashi Order at the beginning of the 16th century. The mystical practices and rituals of the Bektashi were systematized and structured by Balım, after which ...

(d. 1517/1519, buried in Nevşehir Province, co-founder of the

Bektashi Order The Bektashi Order; sq, Tarikati Bektashi; tr, Bektaşi or Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi mystic movement originating in the 13th-century. It is named after the Anatolian saint Haji Bektash Wali (d. 1271). The community is currently led by ...

) * Bahauddin Zakariya (1170–1267, buried in the

Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya The Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya ( ur, ) is a 13th-century shrine located in the city of Multan, in Pakistan's Punjab province. The tomb is dedicated to the Muslim mystic Bahauddin Zakariya, founder of the Suhrawardiyya order of Sufism. It ...

, spread the Suhrawardiyya order through South Asia) * Bande Nawaz (1321–1422, buried in

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, spread the Chishti Order to southern India) *

Khwaja Baqi Billah Khwaja Baqi Billah ( fa, ), born as Muhammad Baqi (14 July 1564– 29 November 1603), was a Sufi saint from Kabul. He was disciple of Khawaja Muhammad Amkanagi. Birth Baqi Billah was the originator and pioneer of the Naqshbandi Order in the ...

(1564–1605, buried in

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, spread the

order into India) * Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (d. 1986, founder of the ''Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship'' in

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Bayazid Bastami Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr bin ʿĪsā bin Surūshān al-Bisṭāmī (al-Basṭāmī) (d. 261/874–5 or 234/848–9), commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī ( fa, بایزید بسطامی), was a PersianWalbridge, John. " ...

(874/5-848/9, buried in Shrine of Bayazid Bostami, noted for his ideas on spiritual intoxication) * Bibi Jamal Khatun (d. 1639 or 1647, lived in Sehwan Sharif, sister of Mian Mir) * Bodla Bahar (1238-1298, buried in Sehwan Sharif, features in the miracle stories of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar) * Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324, buried in

Panipat Panipat () is a historic city in Haryana, India. It is 95 km north of Delhi and 169 km south of Chandigarh on NH-1. The three major battles fought in 1526, 1556 and 1761 took place near the city. The city is famous in India as the ...

) * Bulleh Shah (1680–1757, buried in Kasur, regarded as "the father of Punjabi enlightenment")

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Dara Shikoh Dara Shikoh ( fa, ), also known as Dara Shukoh, (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659) was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Dara was designated with the title ''Padshahzada-i-Buzurg Martaba'' ("Prince of High Rank ...

(1615–1659, brother of

Aurangzeb Muhi al-Din Muhammad (; – 3 March 1707), commonly known as ( fa, , lit=Ornament of the Throne) and by his regnal title Alamgir ( fa, , translit=ʿĀlamgīr, lit=Conqueror of the World), was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling ...

, author of Majma-ul-Bahrain) *

Daud Bandagi Kirmani Syed Muhammad Ibrahim bin Syed Fatehullah Kirmani 1513-1575C.E. (AH 919-982), more popularly known as Shaikh Daud Bandagi Kirmani was a 16th-century saint of the Qadiri order. The Shrine of Shaikh Daud Bandagi Kirmani The mausoleum of Sha ...

(1513–1575, buried in

Shergarh, Punjab Shergarh ( ur, ), is an historic town, union council and major administrative subdivision of Depalpur Tehsil, Okara District, Punjab, Pakistan. Location It is located in Okara district of Punjab. History Sher Garh (literally "Lion's ...

) * Dawūd al-Qayṣarī * Dawud Tai (d. circa 777-782) * Dhul-Nun al-Misri

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Fariduddin Ganjshakar Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-i-Shakar ( ; – 7 May 1266) was a 13th-century Punjabi Sunni Muslim preacher and mystic, who was one of the most revered and distinguished Muslim mystics of the medieval period. He is known reverentially as B� ...

(1188–1280, buried in the

Shrine of Baba Farid The Shrine of Baba Farid ( Punjabi and ur, بابا فرید درگاہ) is a 13th-century Sufi shrine located in Pakpattan, Pakistan, that is dedicated to the Sufi mystic Fariduddin Ganjshakar, popularly known as Baba Farid. The shrine is one o ...

, Pakpattan, Pakistan and developed Punjabi literature through poetry) * Fazl Ahmad Khan (1857–1907), Indian Sufi teacher * Fuzuli (1494–1556), considered one of the greatest poets of

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) * Ghulam Farid (1845–1901), buried in Mithankot, poet * Ghousi Shah (1893–1954, buried in

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) * Gül Baba (d. 1541, buried in Tomb of Gül Baba, esoteric author and patron saint of

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Hafez Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( fa, خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمّد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (, ''Ḥāfeẓ'', 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) and as "Hafiz", ...

(1315-1390, buried in

Tomb of Hafez The Tomb of Hafez (Persian: آرامگاه حافظ), commonly known as Hāfezieh (), are two memorial structures erected in the northern edge of Shiraz, Iran, in memory of the celebrated Persian poet Hafez. The open pavilion structures are si ...

, highly popular antinomian Persian poet whose works are regularly quoted and even used for divination) * Haji Huud (1025–1141, buried in

Patan, Gujarat Patan () is the administrative seat of Patan District in the Indian state of Gujarat and is an administered municipality. It was the capital of Gujarat's Chavda and Chaulukya dynasties in medieval times, and is also known as Anhilpur-P ...

, helped spread Islam in India) * Haji Bayram Veli (1352–1430, buried in

Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...

, founder of the Bayramiye order) * Haji Bektash Veli (1209–1271, buried in the

Haji Bektash Veli Complex The Haji Bektash Veli complex ( tr, Hacıbektaş Külliyesi) is an Alevi Cultural Monument of the Republic of Turkey, located in Hacıbektaş, Nevshehir province. It was built in the 13th century as a teqe ''(dergâh)'' of the Sufi saint Haji B ...

, revered by both

Alevis Alevism or Anatolian Alevism (; tr, Alevilik, ''Anadolu Aleviliği'' or ''Kızılbaşlık''; ; az, Ələvilik) is a local Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Alevi Islamic ( ''bāṭenī'') teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, ...

and Bektashis) *

Hasan al-Basri Abu Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan Yasar al-Basri, often referred to as Hasan of Basra (Arabic: الحسن البصري, romanized: ''Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī''; 642 - 15 October 728) for short, or as Hasan al-Basri, was an early Muslim preacher, asceti ...

(642-728, buried in

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, highly important figure in the development of Sunni Sufism) * Hazrat Babajan (d. 1931, buried in

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, master to Meher Baba) * Hayreddin Tokadi * Yusuf Hamdani (1062-1141, buried in

Merv Merv ( tk, Merw, ', مرو; fa, مرو, ''Marv''), also known as the Merve Oasis, formerly known as Alexandria ( grc-gre, Ἀλεξάνδρεια), Antiochia in Margiana ( grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐν τῇ Μαργιανῇ) and ...

) * Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (1314–1384, buried in

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, spread the Kubrawiya order throughout Asia) * Hüsn ü Aşk *

Usman Harooni Usman Harooni ( ur, ) was an early modern wali or Sufi saint of Islam in India, a successor to Shareef Zandani, sixteenth link in the Silsila of the Chishti order, and master of Moinuddin Chishti. Usman Harooni was born in Haroon, Iran. His ...

Ali Hujwiri Abu 'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAlī al-Ghaznawī al-Jullābī al-Hujwīrī (c. 1009-1072/77), known as ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī or al-Hujwīrī (also spelt Hajweri, Hajveri, or Hajvery) for short, or reverentially as Shaykh Syed ʿAlī al- ...

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Ibrahim Niass Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975)—or french: Ibrahima Niasse, wo, Ibrayima Ñas, ar, شيخ الإسلام الحاج إبراهيم إبن الحاج عبد الله التجاني الكولخي ''Shaykh al-'Islām al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al- ...

* Ibrahim ibn Adham *

Ibn Arabi Ibn ʿArabī ( ar, ابن عربي, ; full name: , ; 1165–1240), nicknamed al-Qushayrī (, ) and Sulṭān al-ʿĀrifīn (, , ' Sultan of the Knowers'), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influen ...

Ibn Ata Allah Tāj al-Dīn Abū'l-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Isa ibn Hussein ibn ʿAṭā Allāh al-Judhami al-Iskandarī al-Shādhilī was an Egyptian Malikite jurist, muhaddith and the th ...

* Imam Ali-ul-Haq (925-971, buried in

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). * Ibrahim al-Dasuqi (1255–1296, buried in Desouk, founder of the Desouki order) *

İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi Ibrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (18 May 1703 – 22 June 1780), a popular sufi saint of Turkey from Erzurum in eastern Anatolia - mystic, poet, author, astronomer, physicist, psychologist, sociologist and Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar. He was a Tur ...

(1703–1780, buried in Tillo, astronomer and encyclopedist, first Muslim author to cover post-Copernican astronomy) * Ibrahim ibn Faïd (1396-1453) *

Imadaddin Nasimi Alī Imādud-Dīn Nasīmī ( az, Seyid Əli İmadəddin Nəsimi سئید علی عمادالدّین نسیمی, fa, عمادالدین نسیمی), often known as Nesimi, was a 14th-century Azerbaijani Ḥurūfī poet. Known mostly by his ...

Ismail Haqqi Bursevi İsmail Hakkı Bursevî ( Turkish: Bursalı İsmail Hakkı, ar, إسماعيل حقي البروسوي, Persian: Esmā’īl Ḥaqqī Borsavī) was a 17th-century Ottoman Turkish Muslim scholar, a Jelveti Sufi author on mystical experienc ...

(1653-1725, buried in

Bursa ( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...

, author noted for esoteric interpretations of the Quran) *

Ismail Qureshi al Hashmi Makhdoom Shaikh Imaduddin Ismail Qureshi(Quraishi) Asadi al Hashmi, a Suharwardi Shaikh - is one of the pioneers of Islamic preachers in Allahabad district. He is the grandson of Shaikh Bahauddin Zakaria Multani and son of Shaikh Sadruddin Ari ...

(1260–1349)

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* Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari (1192–1291) *

Jamal-ud-Din Hansvi Sheikh Jamal-ud-Din Ahmad was a direct descendant of Imam Abu Hanifa, the renowned Sunni-Persian jurist of Islam. He was born at Ghazni, (Khorasan) which is in Modern-day Afghanistan, in 583 A.H. (c. 1187). He was five years old when his family c ...

Jabir ibn Hayyan Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Arabic: , variously called al-Ṣūfī, al-Azdī, al-Kūfī, or al-Ṭūsī), died 806−816, is the purported author of an enormous number and variety of works in Arabic, often called the Jabirian corpus. The ...

Ja'far al-Sadiq Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣādiq ( ar, جعفر بن محمد الصادق; 702 – 765 CE), commonly known as Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (), was an 8th-century Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian.. He was the founder of th ...

Jahanara Begum Sahib Jahanara Begum (23 March 1614 – 16 September 1681) was a Mughal princess and later the Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire from 1631 to 1658 and again from 1668 until her death. She was the second and the eldest surviving child of Emperor Sh ...

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Omar Khayyam Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam ( fa, عمر خیّام), was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, an ...

Osman Fazli Osman Fazli ( Turkish: Atpazarı Osman Fazlı-ilahi or Kutb Osman Fazlı), was a Jelveti Sufi spiritual guide in 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He spent c.25 years teaching and preaching, and became head Sheikh of the order in Istanbul and led ...

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Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar was a Persian Sufi saint and Malāmatī- Qalāndārī Sheikh, of possible Turkic origin, and is buried in Zava, Khurasan. Qazvini, author of the '' Tarikh-i guzida'', states Haydar was alive at the time of the Mongol inva ...

* Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi * Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235)

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Ahmad Sirhindi Aḥmad al-Fārūqī as-Sirhindī (1564-1624) was a South Asian Islamic scholar from Punjab, Hanafi jurist, and member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order. He has been described by some followers as a Mujaddid, meaning a “reviver", for his work i ...

(aka Imam Rabbani) (ca. 1564-1624) * Rabia Basri * Rahman Baba *

Ahmed al-Rifa'i Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...

* Rukn-e-Alam (1251–1335) *

Rumi Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ( fa, جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā ( fa, مولانا, lit= our master) and Mevlevî/Mawlawī ( fa, مولوی, lit= my ma ...

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Waris Shah Waris Shah ( pa, ; ; 1722–1798) was a Punjabi Sufi poet of the Chishti order, known for his contribution to Punjabi literature. He is primarily known as the author of ''Heer Ranjha'' . Background Waris Shah was born in Jandiala Sher Kh ...

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* Yahya bey Dukagjini * Yahya Efendi *

Makhdoom Yahya Maneri Makhdoom Yahiya Maneri ( ur, , hi, Makhdoom) was an Indian Sufi saint of the 13th century. His tomb in courtyard of a mosque, located in Maner, 29 km from Patna, Bihar, India. Biography His complete name is Kamaaluddin Yahya Maneri. He w ...

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Khwaja Yunus Ali Yunus Ali Enayetpuri ( ar, يونس علي العنايتفوري, bn, ইউনুস আলী এনায়েতপুরী; 1886–1951), or simply Khwaja Enayetpuri , was a Sufi saint. Personal life Born in 1886, he studied from the ...

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