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).

The mausoleum of Ahmad Yasawi who was also considered a Sufi saint and poet in Turkistan, current day Kazakhstan.

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

Mosque and shrine of Sayyid Baha ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. After whom the Naqshbandi Golden Chain is named after.

Quranic calligraphy inscribed on the walls of the famous 12th century Islamic saint, scholar, jurist and theologian Jalal ad-Din Rumi in Konya, Turkey.

Mosque and shrine of Imam Al-Mursi Abu'l-'Abbas, in ميدان المساجد، الجمرك، Qesm Al Gomrok, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt.

Shrine of Pir Hadi Hassan Bux Shah Jilani in Sindh, Pakistan

A

• Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili
• Ali Hisam-ad-Din Naqshbandi
• Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan (1934–2017, 12th Sheikh of Silsila Naqshbandia Owaisiah and writer of several books and 03 Tafaseer of the Holy Qur'an)
• Abdallah ibn Alawi al-Haddad (1634–1720, buried in Hadhramaut, author on several books on Dhikr)
• Abdullah Ansari
• Abdullah Shah Ghazi (d. 720, buried in Karachi)
• Abdul Khaliq Ghajadwani (d. 1179, buried in Bukhara, one of the Khwajagan of the Naqshbandi order)
• Abdul Qadir Gilani (1077–1166, buried in Baghdad, founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order)^[3][4]
• Abdul Razzaq Gilani (1134–1207, buried in Baghdad, son of Abdul Qadir Gilani, promoted the Qadiriyya order)
• Abu Ishaq Shami (d. 940, buried on Mount Qasioun, founder of the Chishti Order)
• Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (967–1049, buried in Miana, Turkmenistan, poet who innovated the use of love poetry to express mystic concepts)
• Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi (1219–1287, buried in Anfoushi, one of the four master saints of Egypt)
• Abul Hasan Hankari (1018–1093, 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 (1626–1694, buried in Xinjiang, opposed the Chagatai Khanate's attempt to enforce Yassa law on Muslims)
• Ahamed Muhyudheen Noorishah Jeelani (1915–1990, buried in Hyderabad, India, founder of the Nooriya Sufi order)
• Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856–1921, buried in the Bareilly Sharif Dargah, reformer in British India)
• Ahmad Ghazali (1061 to 1123 or 1126, 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 (1737–1815, buried in Fez, Morocco), founder of the Tijaniyyah order)
• Ahmadou Bamba (1853–1927, buried next to the Great Mosque of Touba, lead a pacifist struggle against the French colonial empire)
• Ahmad Yasawi (1093–1166, buried in the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, poet, founder of Turkish Sufism)
• Akshamsaddin (1389–1459, buried in Göynük, tutor and advisor to Mehmed the Conqueror)
• Akhundzada Saif-ur-Rahman Mubarak (1925–2010, buried in Lahore, founder of the Saifia Sufi order)
• Al-Busiri (1211–1294, buried in Alexandria, poet, author of the Qasida Burda)
• Wasif Ali Wasif (1929–1993, buried in Lahore, was a teacher, writer, poet, and Sufi saint from Pakistan)
• Habib al-Ajami (d. 738, buried in Basra)
• Abu Bakr al-Aydarus (1447–1508, buried in Aden, the patron saint of Aden, credited with introducing Qadiri Sufism to Ethiopia and coffee to the Arab world)
• Ahmad al-Badawi (1200–1276, buried in Ahmad Al-Badawi Mosque, most popular saint in Egypt)
• Khwaja Ahrar (1404–1490 AD), played a significant role in establishing the Naqshbandi Order
• Al-Ghazali (1058–1111, 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 (858–922, ashes scattered in the Tigris, imprisoned and executed after requesting "O Muslims, save me from God" and declaring "I am the Truth")
• Ali Hujwiri (1009–1072/77, buried in Lahore, Pakistan, author of Kashf ul Mahjoob, spread Sufism throughout the Indian Subcontinent)^[5]
• Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441–1501, buried in Herat, author of Muhakamat al-Lughatayn and founder of Turkic literature)
• Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani (963–1033, illiterate mystic who influenced Avicenna, Rumi, and Jami)
• Al-Qushayri (986–1072, buried in Nishapur, author who distinguished four layers of Quranic interpretation and defended the historical lineage of Sufism)
• Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari (1196–1291, buried near Haridwar, founder of the Sabiriya branch of the Chishti order)^[6]
• Amir Khusrau (1253–1325, buried in the Nizamuddin Dargah, influential musician, considered the "father of Urdu literature")^[7]
• Amir Kulal (1278–1370, buried near Bukhara, taught Timur and Baha' al-Din Naqshband)
• Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221, buried in the Mausoleum of Attar of Nishapur, author of The Conference of the Birds and the hagiographic Tazkirat al-Awliya)
• Aurangzeb (1618–1707), 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 (1365–1424, 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 (1816–1893, buried in Gaya (India)) was a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in South Asia.

B

• Baba Fakruddin (1169–1295, buried in Penukonda)^[9]
• Baba Kuhi of Shiraz (948–1037)
• Baba Shadi Shaheed (17th century, first Chib Rajput to convert to Islam, married a daughter of Babur)
• Sheikh Bedreddin (1359–1420, buried in Istanbul in 1961, revolted against Mehmed I)
• Baha' al-Din Naqshband (1318–1389, buried in Bukhara, founder of the Naqshbandi order)
• Balım Sultan (d. 1517/1519, buried in Nevşehir Province, co-founder of the Bektashi Order)
• Bahauddin Zakariya (1170–1267, buried in the Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya, spread the Suhrawardiyya order through South Asia)^[10]
• Bande Nawaz (1321–1422, buried in Gulbarga, spread the Chishti Order to southern India)^[11]
• Khwaja Baqi Billah (1564–1605, buried in Delhi, spread the Naqshbandi order into India)^[12]
• Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (d. 1986, founder of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia)
• Bayazid Bastami (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)^[13]
• 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)^[14]
• Bulleh Shah (1680–1757, buried in Kasur, regarded as "the father of Punjabi enlightenment")

D

• Dara Shikoh (1615–1659, brother of Aurangzeb, author of Majma-ul-Bahrain)^[15]
• Daud Bandagi Kirmani (1513–1575, buried in Shergarh, Punjab)^[16]
• Dawūd al-Qayṣarī
• Dawud Tai (d. circa 777-782)
• Dhul-Nun al-Misri

F

• Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi
• Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1188–1280, buried in the Shrine of Baba Farid, Pakpattan, Pakistan and developed Punjabi literature through poetry)^[17]
• Fazl Ahmad Khan (1857–1907), Indian Sufi teacher
• Fuzuli (1494–1556), considered one of the greatest poets of Azerbaijani literature)
• Imam Fassi

G

• Ghulam Ali Dehlavi (1743–1824, buried in Delhi)
• Ghulam Farid (1845–1901), buried in Mithankot, poet
• Ghousi Shah (1893–1954, buried in Hyderabad)
• Gül Baba (d. 1541, buried in Tomb of Gül Baba, esoteric author and patron saint of Budapest)

H

• Hafez (1315–1390, buried in Tomb of Hafez, highly popular antinomian Persian poet whose works are regularly quoted and even used for divination)
• Haji Huud (1025–1141, buried in Patan, Gujarat, helped spread Islam in India)^[18]
• Haji Bayram Veli (1352–1430, buried in Ankara, founder of the Bayramiye order)
• Haji Bektash Veli (1209–1271, buried in the Haji Bektash Veli Complex, revered by both Alevis and Bektashis)
• Hasan al-Basri (642–728, buried in Az Zubayr, highly important figure in the development of Sunni Sufism)
• Hazrat Babajan (d. 1931, buried in Pune, master to Meher Baba)
• Hayreddin Tokadi
• Yusuf Hamdani (1062–1141, buried in Merv)
• Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (1314–1384, buried in Khatlon Region, spread the Kubrawiya order throughout Asia)^[19]
• Usman Harooni
• Ali Hujwiri

I

• Iraqī (1213–1289)^[20]
• Ibrahim Niass
• Ibrahim ibn Adham
• Ibn Arabi
• Ibn Ata Allah
• Imam Ali-ul-Haq (925–971, buried in Sialkot).
• Ibrahim al-Dasuqi (1255–1296, buried in Desouk, founder of the Desouki order)
• İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (1703–1780, buried in Tillo, astronomer and encyclopedist, first Muslim author to cover post-Copernican astronomy)
• Ibrahim ibn Faïd (1396–1453)
• Imadaddin Nasimi
• Ismail Haqqi Bursevi (1653–1725, buried in Bursa, author noted for esoteric interpretations of the Quran)
• Ismail Qureshi al Hashmi (1260–1349)

J

• Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari (1192–1291)^[21]
• Jamal-ud-Din Hansvi
• Jabir ibn Hayyan
• Ja'far al-Sadiq
• Jahanara Begum Sahib (1614–1681)^[15]
• Jahaniyan Jahangasht (1308–1384)
• Jamī

K

• Kasim Baba, fifteenth century Bektashi holy man and missionary
• Khalid-i Baghdadi (1779–1827)
• Kabir (1398–1518)

M

• Muhibbullah Allahabadi
• Aisha Al-Manoubya
• Madurai Maqbara
• Merkez Efendi
• Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (1699–1781)
• Muhammad Jaunpuri
• Muhammad al-Jazuli
• Syed Abdul Rehman Jilani Dehlvi (1024-1088)
• Abdul Karim Jili
• Junayd of Baghdad
• Khâlid-i Baghdâdî
• Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
• Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari
• Maruf Karkhi
• Khan Jahan Ali (d. 1459)
• Lal Shahbaz Qalander (1177–1274)^[22]
• Machiliwale Shah
• Magtymguly Pyragy
• Noor Muhammad Maharvi (1730–1791)
• Mahmoodullah Shah
• Mahmud Hudayi
• Madurai Maqbara
• Mir Amjad Ibrahim Ash Shadhili
• Meher Ali Shah
• Mian Mir (1550–1635)^[23]
• Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
• Sayyid Ali Hamadani
• Muhammad Suleman Taunsvi
• Mohammad Tartusi
• Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi (1013-1119)^[24]
• Muhammad Al-Makki
• Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi
• Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri
• Muqaddam
• Muhammad Qadiri (1552-1654)
• Mustafa Devati
• Mustafa Gaibi
• Mushtaq Ali Shah (?-1792)
• Makhdoom Ali Mahimi (1372–1431)^[25]
• Mohammed al-Hadi ben Issa (1467–1526, buried in Meknes, founder of the Aissawa order)
• Moinuddin Chishti (1141–1230, buried in the Ajmer Sharif Dargah, spread the Chishti order throughout India)^[26]
• Muhammad ibn `Ali at-Tirmidhi

N

• Nadir Ali Shah
• Fazlallah Astarabadi
• Najm al-Din Razi
• Najmuddin Kubra
• Nazim Al-Haqqani
• Nasir Khusraw
• Nasreddin
• Nathar Vali
• Shah Niamatullah
• Shah Nimatullah Wali
• Nizamuddin Auliya
• Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi
• Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325)^[27]

O

• Omar Khayyam
• Osman Fazli
• Otman Baba

P

• Pir Baba (1431–1502)^[28]
• Pir Sultan
• Pir Yemeni
• Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui (1936–2017)^[29]

Q

• Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
• Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar
• Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
• Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki(1173–1235)

R

• Ahmad Sirhindi (a.k.a. Imam Rabbani; ca. 1564–1624)^[30]
• Rabia Basri
• Rahman Baba
• Ahmed al-Rifa'i
• Rukn-e-Alam (1251–1335)^[31]
• Rumi

S

• Saadi Shirazi
• Farqad Sabakhi
• Sachal Sarmast (1739-1827)
• Shaban Veli
• Shah Maroof Khushabi
• Sidi Boushaki
• Sahl al-Tustari
• Salim Chishti (1478–1572)^[32]
• Salman the Persian
• Sanai
• Syed Ahmad Sultan (12th-century)
• Sarı Saltık
• Sarmad Kashani (d. 1661)^[33]
• Saint Nuri
• Ashraf Jahangir Semnani (1308–1405)^[34]
• Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1689-1752)
• Shah Badakhshi (1584–1661)^[35]
• Sayed Badiuddin
• Shah Gardez (1026–1152)^[36]
• Shah Hussain (1538–1599)^[37]
• Shah Jalal (1271–1347)^[38]
• Shah Jalal Dakhini (d. 1476)
• Shah Amanat (d. 1809)
• Shah Paran (14th century)^[39]
• Shamas Faqir
• Shams Tabrizi
• Molla Şemseddin Fenari
• Sheikh Edebali
• Şeyh Gâlib
• Shah Syed Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani
• Syed Ahmad Ullah Maizbhandari (1826-1906)
• Soch Kraal
• Sufi Barkat Ali
• Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar Suhrawardi
• Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi
• Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat (1255-1346)
• Shaykh Syed Mir Mirak Andrabi ( 921A.H - 990 A.H)
• Somuncu Baba
• Sirri Saqti
• Sultan Bahu (1628–1691)
• Sultan Walad
• Shah Farid-ud-Din Baghdadi (c. 1551 AD – c. 1733 AD)
• Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
• Safi-ad-din Ardabili
• Sünbül Efendi

T

• Tajuddin Muhammad Badruddin
• Telli Baba

U

• Üftade
• Uthman Sirâj-ud-Dîn Naqshbandi

W

• Waris Shah
• Waris Ali Shah

Y

• Yahya bey Dukagjini
• Yahya Efendi
• Makhdoom Yahya Maneri (1263–1381)^[40]
• Khwaja Yunus Ali
• Yunus Emre

Z

• Zahed Gilani

See also

• Sufism
• Islam in India
• List of Sufis
• Sufism in India

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