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Names A Persian miniature depicting Jalal al-Din Rumi showing love for his disciple Hussam al-Din Chelebi (ca. 1594). Regarding the rendering of the Arabic walī by the English "saint", prominent scholars such as Gibril Haddad have regarded this as an appropriate translation, with Haddad describing the aversion of some Muslims towards the use of "saint" for walī as "a specious objection ...
t. e. Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine in Mahan, Iran. Shāh Nimatullāh or Shāh Ni'matullāh Wali, ( Persian: شاه نعمت الله ولی Shāh Ne'matullāh-i Valī ), also spelled as Ne'matollah and Ni'matallah was the spiritual leader or Qutb of the Ni'matullah Order in Iran [1] from the 14th and 15th centuries. He is revered by Sunni Islam ...
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)
Istanbul, dated 1477-8 (882 AH). Topkapı Palace Museum. "Shihāb ad-Dīn" Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardī [4] ( Persian: شهابالدین سهروردی, also known as Sohrevardi) (1154–1191) was a Persian philosopher and founder of the Iranian school of Illuminationism, an important school in Islamic philosophy. The "light" in his ...
Though Persia/Iran had never been a Christian country, Christianity had enough of an impact on Persia and Persians to produce a considerable number of saints of this origin, at various times in the Church's history – some of them travelling far afield from their native country, such as Saint Ivo of Huntingdonshire who got his fame as a hermit in England.
Da'i al-Mutlaq. al-Dawla. v. t. e. Pir Dastgir, from the Mughal era. Pir ( Persian: پیر, lit. 'elder') [1] or Peer is a title for a Sufi spiritual guide. They are also referred to as a Hazrat (from Arabic: حضرة, romanized : Haḍra) and Sheikh or Shaykh, which is literally the Arabic equivalent. The title is often translated into English ...
The Rishi order is a religious tradition, concept for the mystical teaching or spiritual practices associated with religious harmony of Sufism in the Kashmir Valley. [1] [2] [3] The Sufi saints of the Rishi order influenced Kashmiris and its culture. [3] The prominent Rishis of the valley include Resh Mir Sàeb and Nund Rishi, also known as ...
A Mughal miniature dated from the early 1620s depicting the Mughal emperor Jahangir (d. 1627) preferring an audience with Sufi saint to his contemporaries, the Ottoman Sultan and the King of England James I (d. 1625); the picture is inscribed in Persian: "Though outwardly shahs stand before him, he fixes his gazes on dervishes."