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.
Sultan-ul-Mashaikh,Khwaja Syed Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya,also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin,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 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 Deobandi movement.
Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah is the dargah (mausoleum) of the Sufi saint Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya. Situated in the Nizamuddin West area of Delhi,the dargah is visited by thousands of pilgrims every week. The site is also known for its evening qawwali devotional music sessions.
Nasiruddin Mahmud Chirag-Dehlavi was a 14th-century mystic-poet and a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order. He was a disciple of Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya,and later his successor. He was the last important Sufi of the Chishti Order from Delhi.
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.
Arshadul Qadri was a Sunni Islamic scholar,author and missionary activist in India associated with the Barelvi movement who established several educational institutions and organizations in India.
Sadia Dehlvi was a Delhi-based activist,writer and a columnist with the daily newspaper,the Hindustan Times,and frequently published in Frontline and Urdu,Hindi and English newspapers and magazines. She was a devotee of Khwaja Gharib Nawaz of Ajmer and Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. She criticized radical interpretations of Islam and called for a pluralistic understanding of Islam. She produced and scripted documentaries and television programs,including Amma and Family (1995),starring Zohra Sehgal,a veteran stage actor.
Chausath Khamba,also spelled Chaunsath Khamba,is a tomb built during 1623–24. It is located in Nizamuddin precincts of Sufi Muslim shrines and tombs in New Delhi,India. The name means "64 pillars" in Urdu and Hindi. It was built by Mirza Aziz Koka,son of Ataga Khan,as a mausoleum for himself,at the time when Mughal Emperor Jahangir ruled from Delhi. Mirza Aziz Koka had served several times as Jahangir’s Governor of Gujarat before he died in Gujarat.
Hashim Peer Dastagir was an Indian Sufi saint belonging to the Qadri Shattari order. His shrine is in Bijapur,Karnataka,India.
Nizam al-Din,spelled variously Nizamuddin or Nizamüddin or etc. may refer to:
Ajmer Sharif Dargah is a Sufi Tomb (dargah) of the Sufi saint,Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti,located at Ajmer Shareef,Rajasthan,India.
ʿUthmān Sirāj ad-Dīn al-Bangālī,known affectionately by followers as Akhi Siraj,was a 14th-century Bengali Muslim scholar. He was a Sufi belonging to the Chishti Order and was a disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. As one of the senior disciples of Nizāmuddīn Auliyā,he spent long years with him in Delhi and earned the sobriquet of Āinā-e-Hind. His shrine,the Pirana Pir Dargah in Gaur,West Bengal,attracts hundreds of thousands of devotees every year. Siraj and his successor,Alaul Haq,are credited with the rise to prominence of the Chishti order in Bengal.
Nizami Bandhu are an Indian musical group composed of Ustad Chand Nizami,Shadab Faridi and Sohrab Faridi Nizami.
Syed Zainul Abedin is the Dewan and Sajjada Nasheen of the Ajmer Sharif Dargah,the Shrine of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti. He is a Sufi of the Chishti order. He is the son of Dewan Syed Ilmuddin Ali Khan,former Sajjada Nasheen.
The Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines 1974 is a bilateral agreement between India and Pakistan facilitating Indian and Pakistani nationals to visit certain religious shrines in both countries. As of November 2018,fifteen locations in Pakistan and five in India are covered under this protocol.
All India Tanzeem Ulama-e-Islam (AITUI),also known as Tanzeem Ulama-e-Islam is an organisation of Bareilvi-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.
All India Muslim Jamaat is an Indian Non-governmental religious organization belonging to the Barelvi movement of Sunni Islam. It was established on 17 September 2022 at the residence of Mannan Raza Khan,brother of Akhtar Raza Khan on the occasion of 104th Urs-e-Razvi of Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi. Shahabuddin Razvi is the President of this organization.
