The Chishti order is a Sufi order of Sunni Islam named after the town of Chisht where it was initiated by Abu Ishaq Shami. The order was brought to South Asia by Mu'in al-Din Chishti in the city of Ajmer.
Khawaja Syed Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya, also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, Sultan-ul-Mashaikh and Mahbub-e-Ilahi, was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar, Sufi saint of the Chishti Order, and is one of the most famous Sufis from the Indian Subcontinent. His predecessors were Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki, and Moinuddin Chishti, who were the masters of the Chishti spiritual chain or silsila in the Indian subcontinent.
The Barelvi movement, also known as Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah is a Sunni revivalist movement that generally adheres to the Hanafi and Shafi'i schools of jurisprudence, and Maturidi and Ash'ari schools of theology with hundreds of millions of followers, and it encompasses a variety of Sufi orders, including the Chistis, Qadiris, Suhrawardis and Naqshbandis as well as many other orders of Sufism. They consider themselves to be the continuation of Sunni Islamic orthodoxy before the rise of Salafism and the Deobandi movement.
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Qadri, known reverentially as A'la Hazrat, was an Indian Islamic scholar and poet who is considered as the founder of the Barelvi movement and the Razvi branch of the Qadri Sufi order.
The Qadiriyya or the Qadiri order is a Sufi mystic order (tariqa) founded by Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani, who was a Hanbali scholar from Gilan, Iran. The order relies strongly upon adherence to the fundamentals of Sunni Islamic law.
Alauddin Ali Ahmed Sabir (1196–1291) also known as Sabir Kaliyari, , was an Indian Sunni Muslim preacher and Sufi saint in the 13th century. He was nephew and successor to Baba Fareed (1188–1280), and the founder of Sabiriya branch of the Chishti Order. Today, his dargah is located in Piran Kaliyar town, near Haridwar in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The dargah is one of the most revered shrines for Muslims in India, after Ajmer Sharif in Rajasthan.
Sheikh Noor Ul Mashaikh Sayyid Ahmed Muhiuddin Jeelani NooriShah Arabic:, known more commonly as NooriShah Jeelani, was a renowned 20th-century muslim, sufi, wali, mystic, orator, faqeeh, theologian, mujaddid and highly acclaimed Islamic scholar of the Qadri, Chisti order from the Indian sub continent. He was the 21st grand son of the famous Sufi saint Ghous-e-Azam Sheikh Mohiyudheen Abdul Qadir Jilani of Baghdad. He was also widely known by his title Noor-ul-Mashaikh. He was the Eponymous founder of the Silsila-e-Nooriya tariqa which is a sub-branch of Qadiriyya and Chistiyya in India.
Hashim Peer Dastagir was an Indian Sufi saint belonging to the Qadri Shattari order. His shrine is in Bijapur, Karnataka, India.
Syed Mohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi is an Indian Sufi leader and spiritual master from Kichchouchcha Sharif, the famous Sufi shrine of Ashraf Jahangir Semnani in Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. Kichhauchhwi is a patron of various social, academic and other developmental activities of Sufi Sunni Muslims in India. He is the Founder and National President of the All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB), a Sufi movement in India.
Syed Babar Ashraf is an Indian social activist and leader belonging to the Barelvi movement of Sunni Islam. He is the Founder President of Sada-e-Sufia-e-Hind, a representative body of Sufis in India.
Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri (1892–1981), was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and author, and leader of the Sunni Barelvi movement following the death of its founder, his father Ahmed Raza Khan. He was known as Mufti-Azam-i-Hind to his followers. He is widely known as Mufti-e-Azam-e-Hind. On his death date his follower celebrate Urs name as Urs-e-Noori on every 14th Muharram of Islamic Year.
Bholoo Shah or Bholu Shah also called Shah Behlan and Bhollo Shah was an 18th-century Muslim Sufi saint from Delhi, India. He was a Majzoob who belonged to the Qadri order. His dargah (mausoleum) is in Old Delhi, India.
Akhtar Raza Khan, also known as Tajush Shari'ah, and Azhari Miyan, was an Indian Islamic scholar. A mufti of the Barelvis, he was the great-grandson of Ahmad Raza Khan who is considered the eponymous founder of the Barelvi movement.
Pir Syed Jamaat Ali Shah was a Pakistani author, Islamic scholar and Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi Order. He presided over the All India Sunni Conference and led the Movement for Shaheed Ganj Mosque. He was a contemporary of Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, the founder of Barelvi movement.
All India Sunni Conference was an organization of Indian Sunni Muslims associated with Sufism and this Conference became the voice of Barelvi movement in British India. The Conference was established in 1925 in the wake of Congress led secular Indian nationalism, changing Geo-political situation of India by leading Barelvi personalities of that time including Jamaat Ali Shah, Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi, Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri, Amjad Ali Aazmi, Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni, Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi and Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah among others.
Sayed Mohiuddin Hussaini Peerzade, also known as Sayed Tanveer Hashmi, is a Sufi leader and spiritual master From Bijapur Sharif, a Sufi shrine in Karnataka, India. Tanveer Hashmi is a patron of various academic, social, and other activities of Sufi Sunni Muslims in India. He belong to Hussiani Hashmi Family, the family of Ahle Bait. His official name in Shajra Shareef is Syed Mohiuddin Hussaini Hashmi Al-Qadri.
Sardar Ahmad Chishti was a Pakistani Islamic scholar who is recognized by his followers as Muhaddith-e-Azam Pakistan.
All India Tanzeem Ulama-e-Islam (AITUI), also known as Tanzeem Ulama-e-Islam is an organisation of Barelvi Sunni Muslims. In 2019, an article in the Times of India via the Times News Network feed claimed AITUI was the predominant Sunni organization in the country.
Muhammad Ibrahim Raza Khan Qadri Razvi (1907–1965), commonly known as Mufassir-e-Azam-e-Hind and Jilani Miyan, was an Indian Islamic scholar, Sufi mystic, orator, author, and leader of Sunni Muslim’s Barelvi movement of Sunni Islam in the Indian subcontinent. He was the elder brother of Hammad Raza Khan.
Shujaat Ali Quadri is an Indian student activist and journalist. Qadri is serving as Chairman of Muslim Students' Organization of India since 2021, earlier he had served as National President of Muslim Students' Organization of India from 2017 to 2021. He is co-founder of Digital Forensics, Research and Analytics Center. He is a Deputy Director of Indo Islamic Heritage Center.
