Faqir is a masculine given name, and may refer to:
Fakir, faqeer, or faqir, derived from faqr, is an Islamic term traditionally used for Sufi Muslim ascetics who renounce their worldly possessions and dedicate their lives to the worship of God. They do not necessarily renounce all relationships and take vows of poverty, some may be poor and some may even be wealthy, but the adornments of the temporal worldly life are kept in perspective and do not detract from their constant neediness of God. The connotations of poverty associated with the term relate to their spiritual neediness, not necessarily their physical neediness.
Allan Fakir, was a Pakistani folk singer. One of the foremost exponents of Sufi music in Pakistan. He was particularly known for his ecstatic style of performance, marked with extreme devotional rhetoric and Sufi dance-singing.
Haji Mirzali Khan Wazir, commonly known as the Faqir of Ipi, was a Pashtun tribal chief and freedom fighter from North Waziristan in today's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Maulvi Faqir Mohammed is an Islamist militant and, until March 2012, a deputy leader of the Pakistani Taliban umbrella group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. He was reported as killed on 5 March 2010 during a helicopter gunship attack on militants by the Pakistani military although he denied the reports as false. In July 2011, he resurfaced on the air broadcasting radio shows out of Afghanistan. He was captured in Afghanistan on 17 February 2013, and released by the Afghan Taliban in 2021.
Sartōr Faqīr, also known as "Mullah Mastan or Mullah Mastana" Pipi Faqir or Saidullah in Pashto and by the British as "The Great Fakir" or "Mad Faqir", "Mad Faqir of Swat" or the "Mad Mullah", was a Pashtun tribal Yusufzai leader and freedom fighter. His name Mullah Mastan translates to "God-intoxicated" as a reference to his religious convictions and his belief that he was capable of miraculous powers and challenging the British Empire.
A fakir or faqir is a Sufi who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
Pashtun nationalism is a political and social movement which promotes the idea that the Pashtuns are deserving of a sovereign nation in their homeland of Pashtunistan, which consists of the Pashtun-majority parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pashtun nationalism is closely linked to the cause of Pashtun home rule and Pashtun independence. The movement propagates the view that Muslims are not a nation and that ethnic loyalty must surpass religious loyalty. They favour the ideas of a "Greater Afghanistan". Therefore, the concept of Pashtun nationalism politically overlaps with Afghan nationalism.
Sohrab Fakir was a renowned Sufi-singer from Sindh, Pakistan.
Sawan Fakir or Sawan Faqir was a classical Sindhi poet who used to recite poetry of a typical Sindhi form- "Bait". His "baits" were of great length.
The Jogi Faqir or yogi Faqir are a Muslim community, found in North India. They are also known as Madariya Faqir. The Jogi Faqir are Muslim converts from the Hindu and are one of the two sub-divisions of the Faqir found in Uttar Pradesh.
Pakistani folk music refers to the local genre of folk music that originates from Pakistan.
The Faqir are a Muslim ethnic group in India. They are also known as Syed, Alvi, Shah, Sain Pir, Dewan Saheb, Miya Shah, Shah Saheb, Dewan Baba in India, Shah is now their preferred self-designation and in West Bengal they are called as Faqirbaba. Faqirs cast of Syed community is evident in the Deccan Region of Telangana State. Since the people of this community are the descendants of Sufi Saints belonging to Syeds lineage, is traced to Ali, so they are called as Syed, Shah, Mir, Shah-Diwan and by other surnames. They are also venerated as pir or peer saheb. Some Muslims also visit the holy shrines of Sufi Saint or peer fakir. They are respected in Muslims like Brahmins in Hindus. Some live in the Terai region of Nepal.
Fakir is both a given name and a surname. As a surname, it may also take the definite article as Al Fakir. Notable people with the name include:
Faqir Syed Aizazuddin, also known as Aizaz Faqir, Fakir Aizazuddin and S. A. V. Fakir, was a Pakistani cricketer.
Sadiq Fakir born on 20 March 1967, in Diplo, Pakistan was an eminent singer and performer of Sindhi music from Sindh, Pakistan.
Jogi may refer to:
Jamal-ud-Din Faqir was a mystic singer from Sindh Pakistan. He was born in 1952 at village Chhutan Wassan, near Bobi Station, near Sanghar. He also went to Rome to perform at the death anniversary of Jalal ud-Din Rumi in 2016. He died on 26 June 2016 due to intestine problem in a private hospital of Hyderabad at the age of 64.
Faqiri is a Dari surname. Faghiri is the romanization of its Persian equivalent.
Notable people with the surname include:
Faghiri is a Persian surname. Faqiri is the romanization of its Dari equivalent.
Notable people with the surname include: