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class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal%C4%AB" title="Walī – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Walī" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%AD_(santo)" title="Valí (santo) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Valí (santo)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%ACalio" title="Ŭalio – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ŭalio" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa 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<li><a href="/wiki/Fana_(Sufism)" title="Fana (Sufism)">Fana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hal_(Sufism)" title="Hal (Sufism)">Hal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haqiqa" title="Haqiqa">Haqiqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ihsan" title="Ihsan">Ihsan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irfan" title="Irfan">Irfan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishq" title="Ishq">Ishq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karamat" title="Karamat">Karamat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kashf" title="Kashf">Kashf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lataif-e-Sitta" title="Lataif-e-Sitta">Lataif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manzil" title="Manzil">Manzil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma%27rifa" title="Ma'rifa">Ma'rifa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maqam_(Sufism)" title="Maqam (Sufism)">Maqam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murid" title="Murid">Murid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murshid" title="Murshid">Murshid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nafs" title="Nafs">Nafs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C5%ABr_(Islam)" title="Nūr (Islam)">Nūr</a></li> <li><a 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class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Sufism" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Sufism"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> The term wali (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: وَلِيّ, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: waliyy, <a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> 'friend'; plural أَوْلِيَاء, ʾawliyāʾ) is most commonly used by <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslims</a> to refer to a <a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">saint</a>, or literally a "friend of <a href="/wiki/God_in_Islam" title="God in Islam">God</a>".<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-John_Renard_2008-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> In the traditional Islamic understanding, 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 <a href="/wiki/Miracle_worker" class="mw-redirect" title="Miracle worker">miracles</a>".<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4">[4]</a> The doctrine of saints was articulated by <a href="/wiki/Ulama" title="Ulama">Muslim scholars</a> very early on in <a href="/wiki/Early_history_of_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Early history of Islam">Islamic history</a>,<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> and particular verses of the <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a> and certain <a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">hadith</a> were interpreted by early Muslim thinkers as "documentary evidence"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4">[4]</a> of the existence of saints. Graves of saints around the Muslim world became centers of <a href="/wiki/Ziyarat" title="Ziyarat">pilgrimage</a> – especially after 1200 CE – for masses of Muslims seeking their <a href="/wiki/Barakah" title="Barakah">barakah</a> (blessing).<a href="#cite_note-brown-59-8">[8]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8,_%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg/250px-%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg/375px-%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg/500px-%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1181" data-file-height="1346" /></a><figcaption>A 1552 <a href="/wiki/Persian_miniature" title="Persian miniature">Persian miniature</a> of the saint <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Ghazali" title="Ahmad Ghazali">Ahmad Ghazali</a> (d. 1123, brother of <a href="/wiki/Al-Ghazali" title="Al-Ghazali">al-Ghazali</a>) talking to a disciple.</figcaption></figure> Since the first Muslim <a href="/wiki/Hagiography" title="Hagiography">hagiographies</a> were written during the period when the Islamic mystical trend of <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufism</a> began its rapid expansion, many of the figures who later came to be regarded as the major saints in orthodox <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islam</a> were the early Sufi mystics, like <a href="/wiki/Hasan_of_Basra" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasan of Basra">Hasan of Basra</a> (d. 728), <a href="/wiki/Farqad_Sabakhi" title="Farqad Sabakhi">Farqad Sabakhi</a> (d. 729), <a href="/wiki/Dawud_Tai" class="mw-redirect" title="Dawud Tai">Dawud Tai</a> (d. 777–781), <a href="/wiki/Rabia_of_Basra" class="mw-redirect" title="Rabia of Basra">Rabia of Basra</a> (d. 801), <a href="/wiki/Maruf_Karkhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Maruf Karkhi">Maruf Karkhi</a> (d. 815), and <a href="/wiki/Junayd_of_Baghdad" title="Junayd of Baghdad">Junayd of Baghdad</a> (d. 910).<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> From the twelfth to the fourteenth century, "the general veneration of saints, among both people and sovereigns, reached its definitive form with the organization of <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufism</a> ... into orders or brotherhoods".<a href="#cite_note-Titus_Burckhardt_2009_p._99-9">[9]</a> In the common expressions of Islamic piety of this period, the saint was understood to be "a contemplative whose state of spiritual perfection ... [found] permanent expression in the teaching bequeathed to his disciples".<a href="#cite_note-Titus_Burckhardt_2009_p._99-9">[9]</a> In many prominent Sunni <a href="/wiki/Aqidah" title="Aqidah">creeds</a> of the time, such as the famous <a href="/wiki/Al-Aqidah_al-Tahawiyyah" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah">Creed of Tahawi</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 900) and the <a href="/wiki/Abu_Hafs_Umar_an-Nasafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu Hafs Umar an-Nasafi">Creed of Nasafi</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1000), a belief in the existence and miracles of saints was presented as "a requirement" for being an orthodox Muslim believer.<a href="#cite_note-Jonathan_A.C._Brown_2012_p._123-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-Christopher_Taylor_1999_pp._5-6-11">[11]</a> Aside from the Sufis, the preeminent saints in traditional Islamic piety are the <a href="/wiki/Companions_of_the_Prophet" title="Companions of the Prophet">Companions of the Prophet</a>, their <a href="/wiki/Tabi%27un" title="Tabi'un">Successors</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tabi%27_al-Tabi%27in" title="Tabi' al-Tabi'in">the Successors of the Successors</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Additionally, the <a href="/wiki/Prophets_and_messengers_in_Islam" title="Prophets and messengers in Islam">prophets and messengers in Islam</a> are also believed to be saints by definition, although they are rarely referred to as such, in order to prevent confusion between them and ordinary saints; as the prophets are exalted by Muslims as the greatest of all humanity, it is a general tenet of Sunni belief that a single prophet is greater than all the regular saints put together.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-13">[13]</a> In short, it is believed that "every prophet is a saint, but not every saint is a prophet".<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/Modern_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern world">modern world</a>, traditional <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia</a> ideas of saints has been challenged by <a href="/wiki/Islamic_puritanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic puritanism">fundamentalist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_revival" title="Islamic revival">revivalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches" title="Islamic schools and branches">Islamic movements</a> such as the <a href="/wiki/Salafi_movement" title="Salafi movement">Salafi movement</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wahhabism" title="Wahhabism">Wahhabism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Modernism" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Modernism">Islamic Modernism</a>, all three of which have, to a greater or lesser degree, "formed a front against the <a href="/wiki/Veneration#Islam" title="Veneration">veneration</a> and theory of saints".<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> As has been noted by scholars, the development of these movements has indirectly led to a trend amongst some mainstream Muslims to resist "acknowledging the existence of Muslim saints altogether or ... [to view] their presence and veneration as unacceptable deviations".<a href="#cite_note-Christopher_Taylor_pp._5-6-15">[15]</a> However, despite the presence of these opposing streams of thought, the classical doctrine of <a href="/wiki/Veneration#Islam" title="Veneration">saint veneration</a> continues to thrive in many parts of the Islamic world today, playing a vital role in daily expressions of piety among vast segments of Muslim populations in Muslim countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Turkey, <a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegal</a>, Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Morocco,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> as well as in countries with substantial Islamic populations like India, China, Russia, and the <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Names">Names</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Names">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jalal_al-Din_Rumi,_Showing_His_Love_for_His_Young_Disciple_Hussam_al-Din_Chelebi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Jalal_al-Din_Rumi%2C_Showing_His_Love_for_His_Young_Disciple_Hussam_al-Din_Chelebi.jpg/170px-Jalal_al-Din_Rumi%2C_Showing_His_Love_for_His_Young_Disciple_Hussam_al-Din_Chelebi.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Jalal_al-Din_Rumi%2C_Showing_His_Love_for_His_Young_Disciple_Hussam_al-Din_Chelebi.jpg/255px-Jalal_al-Din_Rumi%2C_Showing_His_Love_for_His_Young_Disciple_Hussam_al-Din_Chelebi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Jalal_al-Din_Rumi%2C_Showing_His_Love_for_His_Young_Disciple_Hussam_al-Din_Chelebi.jpg/340px-Jalal_al-Din_Rumi%2C_Showing_His_Love_for_His_Young_Disciple_Hussam_al-Din_Chelebi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="555" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Persian_miniature" title="Persian miniature">Persian miniature</a> depicting <a href="/wiki/Jalal_al-Din_Rumi" class="mw-redirect" title="Jalal al-Din Rumi">Jalal al-Din Rumi</a> showing love for his disciple Hussam al-Din Chelebi (ca. 1594)</figcaption></figure> Regarding the rendering of the Arabic walī by the English "saint", prominent scholars such as <a href="/wiki/Gibril_Haddad" title="Gibril Haddad">Gibril Haddad</a> 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 ... for [this is] – like 'Religion' (din), 'Believer' (mu'min), 'prayer' (salat), etc. – [a] generic term for holiness and holy persons while there is no confusion, for Muslims, over their specific referents in Islam, namely: the reality of iman with Godwariness and those who possess those qualities."<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] In <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>, which became the second most influential and widely spoken language in the Islamic world after <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> the general title for a saint or a spiritual master became pīr (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: پیر, literally "old [person]", "elder"<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a>).<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Although the ramifications of this phrase include the connotations of a general "saint,"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> it is often used to specifically signify a spiritual guide of some type.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Amongst <a href="/wiki/Indian_Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Muslims">Indian Muslims</a>, the title pīr baba (पीर बाबा) is commonly used in <a href="/wiki/Hindustani_language" title="Hindustani language">Hindi</a> to refer to Sufi masters or similarly honored saints.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Additionally, saints are also sometimes referred to in the Persian or <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> vernacular with "<a href="/wiki/Hazrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Hazrat">Hazrat</a>."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Islamic mysticism</a>, a pīr's role is to guide and instruct his disciples on the mystical path.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Hence, the key difference between the use of walī and pīr is that the former does not imply a saint who is also a spiritual master with disciples, while the latter directly does so through its connotations of "elder".<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Additionally, other Arabic and Persian words that also often have the same connotations as pīr, and hence are also sometimes translated into English as "saint", include <a href="/wiki/Murshid" title="Murshid">murshid</a> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: مرشد, meaning "guide" or "teacher"), <a href="/wiki/Sheikh#Sufi_term" title="Sheikh">sheikh</a> and sarkar (Persian word meaning "master").<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> In the Turkish Islamic lands, saints have been referred to by many terms, including the Arabic walī, the Persian s̲h̲āh and pīr, and Turkish alternatives like baba in Anatolia, ata in <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a> (both meaning "father"), and eren or ermis̲h̲ (< ermek "to reach, attain") or yati̊r ("one who settles down") in <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Their tombs, meanwhile, are "denoted by terms of Arabic or Persian origin alluding to the idea of pilgrimage (mazār, ziyāratgāh), tomb (ḳabr, maḳbar) or domed mausoleum (gunbad, ḳubba). But such tombs are also denoted by terms usually used for dervish convents, or a particular part of it (tekke in the <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a>, langar, 'refectory,' and ribāṭ in <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>), or by a quality of the saint (pīr, 'venerable, respectable,' in <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>)."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Holiest_sites_in_Islam" title="Holiest sites in Islam">Holiest sites in Islam</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sufi_saints" title="List of Sufi saints">List of Sufi saints</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jahangir_with_sufi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Jahangir_with_sufi.jpg/170px-Jahangir_with_sufi.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Jahangir_with_sufi.jpg/255px-Jahangir_with_sufi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Jahangir_with_sufi.jpg/340px-Jahangir_with_sufi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="1155" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Mughal_miniature" class="mw-redirect" title="Mughal miniature">Mughal miniature</a> dated from the early 1620s depicting the <a href="/wiki/Mughal_emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Mughal emperor">Mughal emperor</a> <a href="/wiki/Jahangir" title="Jahangir">Jahangir</a> (d. 1627) preferring a Sufi saint to his contemporary, the <a href="/wiki/King_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="King of England">King of England</a> <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">James I</a> (d. 1625); the picture is inscribed: "Though outwardly kings stand before him, he fixes his gazes on saints."</figcaption></figure> According to various traditional Sufi interpretations of the <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a>, the concept of sainthood is clearly described.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> Some modern scholars, however, assert that the Quran does not explicitly outline a doctrine or theory of saints.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> In the Quran, the adjective walī is applied to <a href="/wiki/God_in_Islam" title="God in Islam">God</a>, in the sense of him being the "friend" of all believers (Q<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quran.com/2?startingVerse=257">2:257</a>). However, particular Quranic verses were interpreted by early Islamic scholars to refer to a special, exalted group of holy people.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4">[4]</a> These included <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quran.com/10?startingVerse=62">10:62</a>:<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4">[4]</a> "Surely God's friends (awliyāa l-lahi): no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow,"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4">[4]</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quran.com/5?startingVerse=54">5:54</a>, which refers to God's love for those who love him.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4">[4]</a> Additionally, some scholars<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> interpreted <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quran.com/4?startingVerse=69">4:69</a>, "Whosoever obeys God and the Messenger, they are with those unto whom God hath shown favor: the prophets and the ṣidīqīna and the martyrs and the righteous. The best of company are they," to carry a reference to holy people who were not prophets and were ranked below the latter.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> The word ṣidīqīna in this verse literally connotes "the truthful ones" or "the just ones," and was often interpreted by the early Islamic thinkers in the sense of "saints," with the famous Quran translator <a href="/wiki/Marmaduke_Pickthall" title="Marmaduke Pickthall">Marmaduke Pickthall</a> rendering it as "saints" in their interpretations of the scripture.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Furthermore, the Quran referred to the miracles of saintly people who were not prophets like <a href="/wiki/Khidr" title="Khidr">Khidr</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quran.com/18?startingVerse=65">18:65-82</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/People_of_the_Cave" class="mw-redirect" title="People of the Cave">People of the Cave</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quran.com/18?startingVerse=7">18:7-26</a>), which also led many early scholars to deduce that a group of venerable people must exist who occupy a rank below the prophets but are nevertheless exalted by God.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> The references in the corpus of <a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">hadith literature</a> to bona fide saints like the pre-Islamic Jurayj̲,<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> only lent further credence to this early understanding of saints.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Collected stories about the "lives or vitae of the saints", began to be compiled "and transmitted at an early stage"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> by many regular Muslim scholars, including <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Abi_al-Dunya" title="Ibn Abi al-Dunya">Ibn Abi al-Dunya</a> (d. 894),<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> who wrote a work entitled Kitāb al-Awliyāʾ (Lives of the Saints) in the ninth-century, which constitutes "the earliest [complete] compilation on the theme of God's friends."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Prior to Ibn Abi al-Dunya's work, the stories of the saints were transmitted through <a href="/wiki/Oral_tradition" title="Oral tradition">oral tradition</a>; but after the composition of his work, many Islamic scholars began writing down the widely circulated accounts,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> with later scholars like Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī (d. 948) making extensive use of Ibn Abi al-Dunya's work in his own Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ (The Adornment of the Saints).<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> It is, moreover, evident from the Kitāb al-Kas̲h̲f wa 'l-bayān of the early <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdadi</a> <a href="/wiki/Sufi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sufi">Sufi</a> <a href="/wiki/Islamic_mysticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic mysticism">mystic</a> <a href="/wiki/Abu_Sa%27id_al-Kharraz" title="Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz">Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz</a> (d. 899) that a cohesive understanding of the Muslim saints was already in existence, with al-Kharraz spending ample space distinguishing between the virtues and miracles (karāmāt) of the <a href="/wiki/Prophets_and_messengers_in_Islam" title="Prophets and messengers in Islam">prophets</a> and the saints.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> The genre of <a href="/wiki/Hagiography" title="Hagiography">hagiography</a> (<a href="/wiki/Man%C4%81%E1%B8%B3ib" class="mw-redirect" title="Manāḳib">manāḳib</a>) only became more popular with the passage of time, with numerous prominent Islamic thinkers of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">medieval period</a> devoting large works to collecting stories of various saints or to focusing upon "the marvelous aspects of the life, the miracles or at least the prodigies of a [specific] Ṣūfī or of a saint believed to have been endowed with miraculous powers."<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> In the late ninth-century, important thinkers in <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islam</a> officially articulated the previously-oral doctrine of an entire hierarchy of saints, with the first written account of this hierarchy coming from the pen of <a href="/wiki/Al-Hakim_al-Tirmidhi" title="Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi">al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi</a> (d. 907-912).<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> With the <a href="/wiki/Ijma" title="Ijma">general consensus</a> of Islamic scholars of the period accepting that the <a href="/wiki/Ulema" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulema">ulema</a> were responsible for maintaining the "exoteric" part of Islamic orthodoxy, including the disciplines of <a href="/wiki/Shariah" class="mw-redirect" title="Shariah">law</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fiqh" title="Fiqh">jurisprudence</a>, while the Sufis were responsible for articulating the religion's deepest inward truths,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> later prominent mystics like <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Arabi" title="Ibn Arabi">Ibn Arabi</a> (d. 1240) only further reinforced this idea of a saintly hierarchy, and the notion of "types" of saints became a mainstay of Sunni mystical thought, with such types including the ṣiddīqūn ("the truthful ones") and the abdāl ("the substitute-saints"), amongst others.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Many of these concepts appear in writing far before al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Arabi; the idea of the abdāl, for example, appears as early as the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_South_Arabian_script" title="Ancient South Arabian script">Musnad</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Hanbal" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn Hanbal">Ibn Hanbal</a> (d. 855), where the word signifies a group of major saints "whose number would remain constant, one always being replaced by some other on his death."<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> It is, in fact, reported that Ibn Hanbal explicitly identified his contemporary, the mystic <a href="/wiki/Maruf_Karkhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Maruf Karkhi">Maruf Karkhi</a> (d. 815-20), as one of the <a href="/wiki/Abdal" title="Abdal">abdal</a>, saying: "He is one of the substitute-saints, and his supplication is answered."<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Govardhan._A_Discourse_Between_Muslim_Sages_ca._1630_LACMA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Govardhan._A_Discourse_Between_Muslim_Sages_ca._1630_LACMA.jpg/170px-Govardhan._A_Discourse_Between_Muslim_Sages_ca._1630_LACMA.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Govardhan._A_Discourse_Between_Muslim_Sages_ca._1630_LACMA.jpg/255px-Govardhan._A_Discourse_Between_Muslim_Sages_ca._1630_LACMA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Govardhan._A_Discourse_Between_Muslim_Sages_ca._1630_LACMA.jpg/340px-Govardhan._A_Discourse_Between_Muslim_Sages_ca._1630_LACMA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3512" data-file-height="5608" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Mughal_miniature" class="mw-redirect" title="Mughal miniature">Mughal miniature</a> of A Discourse between Muslim Sages (ca. 1630), thought to be executed by the <a href="/wiki/Court_painter" title="Court painter">court painter</a> Govārdhan.</figcaption></figure> From the twelfth to the fourteenth century, "the general veneration of saints, among both people and sovereigns, reached its definitive form with the organization of <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufism</a>—the mysticism of Islam—into orders or brotherhoods."<a href="#cite_note-Titus_Burckhardt_2009_p._99-9">[9]</a> In general Islamic piety of the period, the saint was understood to be "a contemplative whose state of spiritual perfection ... [found] permanent expression in the teaching bequeathed to his disciples."<a href="#cite_note-Titus_Burckhardt_2009_p._99-9">[9]</a> It was by virtue of his spiritual wisdom that the saint was accorded veneration in medieval Islam, "and it is this which ... [effected] his 'canonization,' and not some ecclesiastical institution" as in <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Titus_Burckhardt_2009_p._99-9">[9]</a> In fact, the latter point represents one of the crucial differences between the Islamic and Christian veneration of saints, for saints are venerated by unanimous consensus or popular acclaim in Islam, in a manner akin to all those Christian saints who began to be venerated prior to the institution of <a href="/wiki/Canonization" title="Canonization">canonization</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Titus_Burckhardt_2009_p._99-9">[9]</a> In fact, a belief in the existence of saints became such an important part of medieval Islam<a href="#cite_note-Jonathan_A.C._Brown_2012_p._123-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-Christopher_Taylor_1999_pp._5-6-11">[11]</a> that many of the most important <a href="/wiki/Aqidah" title="Aqidah">creeds</a> articulated during the time period, like the famous <a href="/wiki/Al-Aqidah_al-Tahawiyyah" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah">Creed of Tahawi</a>, explicitly declared it a requirement for being an "orthodox" Muslim to believe in the existence and veneration of saints and in the traditional narratives of their lives and miracles.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-Jonathan_A.C._Brown_2012_p._123-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-Christopher_Taylor_1999_pp._5-6-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-John_Renard_2008-2">[2]</a> Hence, we find that even medieval critics of the widespread practice of <a href="/wiki/Ziyarat" title="Ziyarat">venerating the tombs of saints</a>, like <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Taymiyyah" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn Taymiyyah">Ibn Taymiyyah</a> (d. 1328), never denied the existence of saints as such, with the <a href="/wiki/Hanbali" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanbali">Hanbali</a> <a href="/wiki/Faq%C4%ABh" title="Faqīh">jurist</a> stating: "The miracles of saints are absolutely true and correct, by the acceptance of all Muslim scholars. And the Qur'an has pointed to it in different places, and the sayings of the Prophet have mentioned it, and whoever denies the miraculous power of saints are only people who are innovators and their followers."<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> In the words of one contemporary academic, practically all Muslims of that era believed that "the lives of saints and their miracles were incontestable."<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/Modern_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern world">modern world</a>, the traditional idea of saints in Islam has been challenged by the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_puritanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic puritanism">puritanical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_revival" title="Islamic revival">revivalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches" title="Islamic schools and branches">Islamic movements</a> of <a href="/wiki/Salafi_movement" title="Salafi movement">Salafism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wahhabism" title="Wahhabism">Wahhabism</a>, whose influence has "formed a front against the veneration and theory of saints."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> For the adherents of Wahhabi ideology, for example, the practice of venerating saints appears as an "abomination", for they see in this a form of <a href="/wiki/Shirk_(Islam)" title="Shirk (Islam)">idolatry</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> It is for this reason that the <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Kingdom of Saudi Arabia</a>, which adheres to the Wahhabi creed, "destroyed the tombs of saints wherever ... able"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> during <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Diriyah" title="Emirate of Diriyah">its expansion</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a> from the eighteenth-century onwards.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[Note 1]</a> As has been noted by scholars, the development of these movements have indirectly led to a trend amongst some mainstream Muslims to also resist "acknowledging the existence of Muslim saints altogether or ... [to view] their presence and veneration as unacceptable deviations."<a href="#cite_note-Christopher_Taylor_pp._5-6-15">[15]</a> At the same time, the movement of <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Modernism" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Modernism">Islamic Modernism</a> has also opposed the traditional veneration of saints, for many proponents of this ideology regard the practice as "being both un-Islamic and backwards ... rather than the integral part of Islam which they were for over a millennium."<a href="#cite_note-29">[28]</a> Despite the presence, however, of these opposing streams of thought, the classical doctrine of saint-veneration continues to thrive in many parts of the Islamic world today, playing a vital part in the daily piety of vast portions of Muslim countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Turkey, <a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegal</a>, Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Morocco,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> as well as in countries with substantive Islamic populations like India, China, Russia, and the <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Definitions">Definitions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Definitions">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dara_Shikoh_and_Mian_Mir.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Dara_Shikoh_and_Mian_Mir.jpg/250px-Dara_Shikoh_and_Mian_Mir.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Dara_Shikoh_and_Mian_Mir.jpg/375px-Dara_Shikoh_and_Mian_Mir.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Dara_Shikoh_and_Mian_Mir.jpg/500px-Dara_Shikoh_and_Mian_Mir.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption> Detail from an Indian <a href="/wiki/Miniature_art" title="Miniature art">miniature</a> depicting the <a href="/wiki/Mughal_Empire" title="Mughal Empire">Mughal</a> <a href="/wiki/Prince" title="Prince">prince</a> <a href="/wiki/Dara_Shikoh" title="Dara Shikoh">Dara Shikoh</a> (d. 1659) seeking the advice of a local saint named <a href="/wiki/Mian_Mir" title="Mian Mir">Mian Mir</a> (d. 1635), undated but perhaps from the late seventeenth-century</figcaption></figure> The general definition of the Muslim saint in classical texts is that he represents a "[friend of God] marked by [special] divine favor ... [and] holiness", being specifically "chosen by God and endowed with exceptional gifts, such as the ability to work <a href="/wiki/Miracle_worker" class="mw-redirect" title="Miracle worker">miracles</a>."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4">[4]</a> Moreover, the saint is also portrayed in traditional hagiographies as one who "in some way ... acquires his Friend's, i.e. God's, good qualities, and therefore he possesses particular authority, forces, capacities and abilities."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Amongst classical scholars, <a href="/wiki/Qushayri" class="mw-redirect" title="Qushayri">Qushayri</a> (d. 1073) defined the saint as someone "whose obedience attains permanence without interference of sin; whom God preserves and guards, in permanent fashion, from the failures of sin through the power of acts of obedience."<a href="#cite_note-30">[29]</a> Elsewhere, the same author quoted an older tradition in order to convey his understanding of the purpose of saints, which states: "The saints of God are those who, when they are seen, God is remembered."<a href="#cite_note-31">[30]</a> Meanwhile, <a href="/wiki/Al-Hakim_al-Tirmidhi" title="Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi">al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi</a> (d. 869), the most significant ninth-century expositor of the doctrine, posited six common attributes of true saints (not necessarily applicable to all, according to the author, but nevertheless indicative of a significant portion of them), which are: (1) when people see him, they are automatically reminded of God; (2) anyone who advances towards him in a hostile way is destroyed; (3) he possesses the gift of clairvoyance (firāsa); (4) he receives divine inspiration (ilhām), to be strictly distinguished from revelation proper (waḥy),<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[32]</a> with the latter being something only the <a href="/wiki/Prophet" title="Prophet">prophets</a> receive; (5) he can work miracles (karāmāt) by the leave of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, which may differ from saint to saint, but may include marvels such as walking on water (al-mas̲h̲y ʿalā 'l-māʾ) and shortening <a href="/wiki/Space_and_time" class="mw-redirect" title="Space and time">space and time</a> (ṭayy al-arḍ); and (6) he associates with <a href="/wiki/Khidr" title="Khidr">Khidr</a>.<a href="#cite_note-34">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Al-Tirmidhi states, furthermore, that although the saint is not sinless like the prophets, he or she can nevertheless be "preserved from sin" (maḥfūz) by the grace of God.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> The contemporary scholar of Sufism <a href="/wiki/Martin_Lings" title="Martin Lings">Martin Lings</a> described the Islamic saints as "the great incarnations of the Islamic ideal.... spiritual giants with which almost every generation was blessed."<a href="#cite_note-35">[34]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Classical_testimonies">Classical testimonies</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Classical testimonies">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Miracles_of_the_Saints_(Islam)" class="mw-redirect" title="Miracles of the Saints (Islam)">Miracles of the Saints (Islam)</a></div> The doctrine of saints, and of their miracles, seems to have been taken for granted by many of the major authors of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age" title="Islamic Golden Age">Islamic Golden Age</a> (ca. 700–1400),<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> as well as by many prominent late-medieval scholars.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> The phenomena in traditional Islam can be at least partly ascribed to the writings of many of the most prominent Sunni theologians and doctors of the classical and medieval periods,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> many of whom considered the belief in saints to be "orthodox" doctrine.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Examples of classical testimonies include: <ul><li>"God has saints (awliyā) whom He has specially distinguished by His friendship and whom He has chosen to be the governors of His kingdom… He has made the saints governors of the universe… Through the blessing of their advent the rain falls from heaven, and through the purity of their lives the plants spring up from the earth, and through their spiritual influence the Muslims gain victories over the truth concealers" (<a href="/wiki/Hujwiri" class="mw-redirect" title="Hujwiri">Hujwiri</a> [d. 1072-7]; <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> jurist and mystic)<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a></li> <li>"The miracles of the saints (awliyā) are a reality. The miracle appears on behalf of the saint by way of contradicting the customary way of things.... And such a thing is reckoned as an evidentiary miracle on behalf of the Messenger to one of whose people this act appears, because it is evident from it that he is a saint, and he could never be a saint unless he were right in his religion; and his religion is the confession of the message of the Messenger" (<a href="/wiki/Abu_Hafs_Umar_an-Nasafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu Hafs Umar an-Nasafi">al-Nasafī</a> [d. 1142], Creed XV; <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> theologian)<a href="#cite_note-36">[35]</a></li> <li>"The miracles of saints are absolutely true and correct, and acknowledged by all Muslim scholars. The Qur'an has pointed to it in different places, and the Hadith of the Prophet have mentioned it, and whoever denies the miraculous power of saints are innovators or following innovators" (<a href="/wiki/Ibn_Taymiyya" title="Ibn Taymiyya">Ibn Taymiyya</a> [d. 1328], Mukhtasar al-Fatawa al-Masriyya; <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> <a href="/wiki/Hanbali" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanbali">Hanbali</a> theologian and jurisconsult)<a href="#cite_note-37">[36]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seeking_of_blessings">Seeking of blessings</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Seeking of blessings">edit</a>]</div> The rationale for veneration of deceased saints by pilgrims in an appeal for blessings (<a href="/wiki/Barakah" title="Barakah">Barakah</a>) even though the saints will not rise from the dead until the Day of Resurrection (<a href="/wiki/Yawmuddin" class="mw-redirect" title="Yawmuddin">Yawm ad-Dīn</a>) may come from the hadith that states "the Prophets are alive in their graves and they pray".[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] (According to the Islamic concept of <a href="/wiki/Punishment_of_the_Grave" title="Punishment of the Grave">Punishment of the Grave</a>—established by <a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">hadith</a>—the dead are still conscious and active, with the wicked suffering in their graves as a prelude to hell and the pious at ease.) According to Islamic historian Jonathan A.C. Brown, "saints are thought to be no different" than prophets, "as able in death to answer invocations for assistance" as they were while alive.<a href="#cite_note-brown-59-8">[8]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types_and_hierarchy">Types and hierarchy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Types and hierarchy">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Poets_Hafiz_and_Saadi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/The_Poets_Hafiz_and_Saadi.jpg/170px-The_Poets_Hafiz_and_Saadi.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="328" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/The_Poets_Hafiz_and_Saadi.jpg/255px-The_Poets_Hafiz_and_Saadi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/The_Poets_Hafiz_and_Saadi.jpg/340px-The_Poets_Hafiz_and_Saadi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="568" data-file-height="1097" /></a><figcaption>A drawing of The Two Poet Saints <a href="/wiki/Hafez" title="Hafez">Hafez</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saadi_Shirazi" title="Saadi Shirazi">Saadi Shirazi</a> (ca. 17th century), thought to be executed by Muhammad Qāsim</figcaption></figure> Saints were envisaged to be of different "types" in classical Islamic tradition.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Aside from their earthly differences as regard their temporal duty (i.e. <a href="/wiki/Jurist" title="Jurist">jurist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">hadith</a> <a href="/wiki/Scholar" title="Scholar">scholar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judge" title="Judge">judge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hadith_studies" title="Hadith studies">traditionist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Historian" title="Historian">historian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ascetic" class="mw-redirect" title="Ascetic">ascetic</a>, poet), saints were also distinguished cosmologically as regards their celestial function or standing.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> In Islam, however, the saints are represented in traditional texts as serving separate celestial functions, in a manner similar to the <a href="/wiki/Angel" title="Angel">angels</a>, and this is closely linked to the idea of a celestial hierarchy in which the various types of saints play different roles.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> A fundamental distinction was described in the ninth century by al-Tirmidhi in his Sīrat al-awliyāʾ (Lives of the Saints), who distinguished between two principal varieties of saints: the walī ḥaḳḳ Allāh on the one hand and the walī Allāh on the other.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> According to the author, "the [spiritual] ascent of the walī ḥaḳḳ Allāh must stop at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Creation_myth" title="Creation myth">created</a> <a href="/wiki/Cosmos" title="Cosmos">cosmos</a> ... he can attain God's proximity, but not God Himself; he is only admitted to God's proximity (muḳarrab). It is the walī Allāh who reaches God. Ascent beyond God's throne means to traverse consciously the realms of light of the <a href="/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam" title="Names of God in Islam">Divine Names</a>.... When the walī Allāh has traversed all the realms of the Divine Names, i.e. has come to know God in His names as completely as possible, he is then extinguished in God's essence. His soul, his ego, is eliminated and ... when he acts, it is God Who acts through him. And so the state of extinction means at the same time the highest degree of activity in this world."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Although the doctrine of the hierarchy of saints is already found in written sources as early as the eighth-century,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> it was al-Tirmidhi who gave it its first systematic articulation.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> According to the author, forty major saints, whom he refers to by the various names of ṣiddīḳīn, abdāl, umanāʾ, and nuṣaḥāʾ,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> were appointed after the death of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a> to perpetuate the knowledge of the divine mysteries vouchsafed to them by the prophet.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> These forty saints, al-Tirmidhi stated, would be replaced in each generation after their earthly death; and, according to him, "the fact that they exist is a guarantee for the continuing existence of the world."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Among these forty, al-Tirmidhi specified that seven of them were especially blessed.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Despite their exalted nature, however, al-Tirmidhi emphasized that these forty saints occupied a rank below the prophets.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Later important works which detailed the hierarchy of saints were composed by the mystic ʿAmmār al-Bidlīsī (d. between 1194 and 1207), the spiritual teacher of <a href="/wiki/Najmuddin_Kubra" class="mw-redirect" title="Najmuddin Kubra">Najmuddin Kubra</a> (d. 1220), and by <a href="/wiki/Ruzbihan_Baqli" title="Ruzbihan Baqli">Ruzbihan Baqli</a> (d. 1209), who evidently knew of "a highly developed hierarchy of God's friends."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> The differences in terminology between the various celestial hierarchies presented by these authors were reconciled by later scholars through their belief that the earlier mystics had highlighted particular parts and different aspects of a single, cohesive hierarchy of saints.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sufism">Sufism</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Sufism">edit</a>]</div> The goal of the Sufi path is to achieve <a href="/wiki/Fana_(Sufism)" title="Fana (Sufism)">unification of the self with God</a> (fanāʾ). The concept is often described in Sufi allegories as the self mirroring the light of God. Accordingly, the soul is tainted and in need of purification. In the purified state of the Sufi saint, the Sufi's spotless mind realizes that it has no real existence in itself; his existence is only God's light and he is only the mirror.<a href="#cite_note-38">[37]</a> In certain esoteric teachings of Islam, there is said to be a cosmic spiritual hierarchy<a href="#cite_note-39">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-Imam_and_Qutb-40">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-TheSaintsOfIslam-41">[40]</a> whose ranks include <a href="#Use_in_Tasawuf/Sufism">walis</a> (saints, friends of God), <a href="/wiki/Abdal" title="Abdal">abdals</a> (changed ones), headed by a ghawth (helper) or <a href="/wiki/Qutb" title="Qutb">qutb</a> (pole, axis). The details vary according to the source. One source is the 12th Century Persian <a href="/wiki/Ali_Hujwiri" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Hujwiri">Ali Hujwiri</a>. In his divine court, there are three hundred akhyār ("excellent ones"), forty abdāl ("substitutes"), seven abrār ("piously devoted ones"), four awtād ("pillars"), three nuqabā ("leaders") and one qutb. <blockquote>All these saints know one another and cannot act without mutual consent. It is the task of the Awtad to go round the whole world every night, and if there should be any place on which their eyes have not fallen, next day some flaw will appear in that place, and they must then inform the Qutb in order that he may direct his attention to the weak spot and that by his blessings the imperfection may be remedied.<a href="#cite_note-TheSaintsOfIslam2-42">[41]</a></blockquote> Another is from <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Arabi" title="Ibn Arabi">Ibn Arabi</a>, who lived in Moorish Spain. It has a more exclusive structure. There are eight nujabā ("nobles"), twelve nuqabā, seven abdāl, four awtād, two a'immah ("guides"), and the qutb.<a href="#cite_note-43">[42]</a> According to the 20th-century Sufi <a href="/wiki/Inayat_Khan" title="Inayat Khan">Inayat Khan</a>, there are seven degrees in the hierarchy. In ascending order, they are <a href="/wiki/Pir_(Sufism)" title="Pir (Sufism)">pir</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Buzurg_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Buzurg (Sufism) (page does not exist)">buzurg</a>, wali, <a href="/wiki/Ghaus" title="Ghaus">ghaus</a>, qutb, <a href="/wiki/Prophet_of_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Prophet of Islam">nabi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ras%C5%ABl" class="mw-redirect" title="Rasūl">rasul</a> He does not say how the levels are populated. Pirs and buzurgs assist the spiritual progress of those who approach them. Walis may take responsibility for protecting a community and generally work in secret. Qutbs are similarly responsible for large regions. Nabis are charged with bringing a reforming message to nations or faiths, and hence have a public role. Rasuls likewise have a mission of transformation of the world at large.<a href="#cite_note-44">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regional_veneration">Regional veneration</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Regional veneration">edit</a>]</div> The amount of veneration a specific saint received varied from region to region in Islamic civilization, often on the basis of the saint's own history in that region.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> While the veneration of saints played a crucial role in the daily piety of <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslims</a> all over the Islamic world for more than a thousand years (ca. 800–1800), exactly which saints were most widely venerated in any given cultural climate depended on the hagiographic traditions of that particular area.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Thus, while <a href="/wiki/Moinuddin_Chishti" class="mw-redirect" title="Moinuddin Chishti">Moinuddin Chishti</a> (d. 1236), for example, was honored throughout the Sunni world in the medieval period, his <a href="/wiki/Cult_(religious_practice)" title="Cult (religious practice)">cultus</a> was especially prominent in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian subcontinent</a>, as that is where he was believed to have preached, performed the majority of his miracles, and ultimately settled at the end of his life.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="North_Africa">North Africa</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: North Africa">edit</a>]</div> The veneration of saints has played "an essential role in the religious, and social life of the <a href="/wiki/Maghreb" title="Maghreb">Maghreb</a> for more or less a millennium";<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> in other words, since Islam first reached the lands of North Africa in the eighth century.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> The first written references to ascetic Muslim saints in Africa, "popularly admired and with followings,"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> appear in tenth-century hagiographies.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[44]</a> As has been noted by scholars, however, "the phenomenon may well be older,"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> for many of the stories of the Islamic saints were passed down orally before finally being put to writing.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> One of the most widely venerated saints in early North African Islamic history was Abū Yaʿzā (or Yaʿazzā, d. 1177), an illiterate <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> <a href="/wiki/Miracle_worker" class="mw-redirect" title="Miracle worker">miracle worker</a> whose reputation for sanctity was admired even in his own life.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[46]</a> Another immensely popular saint of the time-period was Ibn Ḥirzihim (d. 1163), who also gained renown for his personal devoutness and his ability to work miracles.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> It was <a href="/wiki/Abu_Madyan" title="Abu Madyan">Abu Madyan</a> (d. 1197), however, who eventually became one of the Awliya Allah of the entire <a href="/wiki/Maghreb" title="Maghreb">Maghreb</a>. A "spiritual disciple of these two preceding saints,"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Abū Madyan, a prominent Sunni Maliki scholar, was the first figure in Maghrebi Sufism "to exercise an influence beyond his own region."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Abū Madyan travelled to the East, where he is said to have met prominent mystics like the renowned <a href="/wiki/Hanbali" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanbali">Hanbali</a> jurist <a href="/wiki/Abdul-Qadir_Gilani" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul-Qadir Gilani">Abdul-Qadir Gilani</a> (d. 1166).<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Upon returning to the Maghreb, Abū Madyan stopped at <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9ja%C3%AFa" title="Béjaïa">Béjaïa</a> and "formed a circle of disciples."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Abū Madyan eventually died in <a href="/wiki/Tlemcen" title="Tlemcen">Tlemcen</a>, while making his way to the <a href="/wiki/Almohad" class="mw-redirect" title="Almohad">Almohad</a> <a href="/wiki/Court" title="Court">court</a> of <a href="/wiki/Marrakesh" title="Marrakesh">Marrakesh</a>; he was later venerated as a prime Awliya Allah of Tlemcen by popular acclaim.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-48">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[48]</a> One of Abū Madyan's most notable disciples was <a href="/wiki/Abd_as-Salam_ibn_Mashish_al-Alami" class="mw-redirect" title="Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish al-Alami">ʿAbd al-Salām Ibn Mas̲h̲īs̲h̲</a> (d. 1127),<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> a "saint ... [who] had a posthumous fame through his being recognised as a master and a 'pole' by" <a href="/wiki/Abul_Hasan_ash-Shadhili" class="mw-redirect" title="Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili">Abu 'l-Ḥasan al-S̲h̲ād̲h̲ilī</a> (d. 1258).<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> It was this last figure who became the preeminent saint in Maghrebi piety, due to his being the founder of one of the most famous Sunni Sufi orders of North Africa: the <a href="/wiki/Shadhiliyya" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadhiliyya">Shadhiliyya</a> <a href="/wiki/Tariqa" title="Tariqa">tariqa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Adhering to the <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> <a href="/wiki/Maddhab" class="mw-redirect" title="Maddhab">maddhab</a> in its <a href="/wiki/Jurisprudence" title="Jurisprudence">jurisprudence</a>, the Shadhili order produced numerous widely honored Sunni saints in the intervening years, including <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Zarruq" title="Ahmad Zarruq">Fāsī Aḥmad al-Zarrūq</a> (d. 1494),<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> who was educated in <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> but taught in <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_al-Jazuli" title="Muhammad al-Jazuli">Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Jazūlī</a> (d. 1465), "who returned to Morocco after a long trip to the East and then began a life as a hermit,"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> and who achieved widespread renown for the miracles he is said to have wrought by the leave of God.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Eventually, the latter was buried in <a href="/wiki/Marrakesh" title="Marrakesh">Marrakesh</a>, where he ended up becoming of the city's seven most famous Awliya Allah for the Sunnis of the area.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Some of the most popular and influential Maghrebi saints and mystics of the following centuries were <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_ibn_Nasir" title="Mohammed ibn Nasir">Muḥammad b. Nāṣir</a> (d. 1674), <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_al-Tijani" title="Ahmad al-Tijani">Aḥmad al-Tij̲ānī</a> (d. 1815), <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_al-Arabi_al-Darqawi" title="Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi">Abū Ḥāmid al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī</a> (d. 1823), and <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_al-Alawi" title="Ahmad al-Alawi">Aḥmad b. ʿAlāwī</a> (d. 1934),<a href="#cite_note-50">[49]</a> with the latter three originating Sufi orders of their own.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Famous adherents of the Shadhili order amongst modern Islamic scholars include <a href="/wiki/Abdallah_Bin_Bayyah" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdallah Bin Bayyah">Abdallah Bin Bayyah</a> (b. 1935), <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Alawi_al-Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki">Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki</a> (d. 2004), <a href="/wiki/Hamza_Yusuf" title="Hamza Yusuf">Hamza Yusuf</a> (b. 1958), and <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_al-Yaqoubi" title="Muhammad al-Yaqoubi">Muhammad al-Yaqoubi</a> (b. 1963).<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> The veneration of saints in Maghrebi Sunni Islam has been studied by scholars with regard to the various "types" of saints venerated by Sunnis in those areas.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> These include: <ul><li>(1) the "pure, ascetic hermit,"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> who is honored for having refused all ostentation, and is commemorated not on account of his written works but by virtue of the reputation he is believed to have had for personal sanctity, miracles, and "inward wisdom or gnosis";<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a></li> <li>(2) "the ecstatic and eccentric saint" (mad̲j̲d̲h̲ūb),<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> who is believed to have maintained orthodoxy in his fulfillment of the pillars of the faith, but who is famous for having taught in an unusually direct style or for having divulged the highest truths before the majority in a manner akin to <a href="/wiki/Hallaj" class="mw-redirect" title="Hallaj">Hallaj</a> (d. 922).<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Famous and widely venerated saints of this "type" include Ibn al-Marʾa (d. 1214), ʿAlī al-Ṣanhāj̲ī (ca. 16th-century), ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mad̲j̲d̲h̲ūb (literally "ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the Ecstatic", d. 1569);<a href="#cite_note-51">[50]</a></li> <li>(3) the "warrior saint" (pl. murābiṭūn) or martyr;<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a></li> <li>(4) female saints, who may belong to one of the aforementioned three categories or some other.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> It has been remarked that "Maghrebi sainthood is by no means confined to men, and ... some of the tombs of female saints are very frequently visited."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a></li> <li>(5) "Jewish saints", that is to say, venerable Jewish personages whose tombs are frequented by Sunni Muslims in the area for the seeking of blessings<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a></li></ul> Regarding the veneration of saints amongst Sunni Muslims in the Maghreb in the present day, scholars have noted the presence of many "thousands of minor, local saints whose tombs remain visible in villages or the quarters of towns."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Although many of these saints lack precise historiographies or hagiographies, "their presence and their social efficacity ... [are] immense"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> in shaping the spiritual life of Muslims in the region. For the vast majority of Muslims in the Maghreb even today, the saints remain "very much alive at their tomb, to the point that the person's name most often serves to denote the place."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> While this classical type of Sunni veneration represents the most widespread stance in the area, the modern influence of <a href="/wiki/Salafism" class="mw-redirect" title="Salafism">Salafism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wahhabism" title="Wahhabism">Wahhabism</a> have challenged the traditional practice in some quarters.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turkey,_the_Balkans,_the_Caucasus_and_Azerbaijan">Turkey, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Azerbaijan</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Turkey, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Azerbaijan">edit</a>]</div> Scholars have noted the tremendously "important role"<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> the veneration of saints has historically played in Islamic life all these areas, especially amongst Sunnis who frequent the many thousands of tombs scattered throughout the region for blessings in performing the act of ziyāra.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> According to scholars, "between the Turks of the Balkans and Anatolia, and those in Central Asia, despite the distance separating them, the concept of the saint and the organisation of pilgrimages displays no fundamental differences."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> The veneration of saints really spread in the Turkish lands from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> and played a crucial role in medieval Turkic Sunni piety not only in cosmopolitan cities but also "in rural areas and amongst nomads of the whole Turkish world."<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> One of the reasons proposed by scholars for the popularity of saints in pre-modern Turkey is that Islam was majorly spread by the early Sunni Sufis in the Turkish lands, rather than by purely exoteric teachers.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> Most of the saints venerated in Turkey belonged to the <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> school of Sunni jurisprudence.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> As scholars have noted, saints venerated in traditional Turkish Sunni Islam may be classified into three principal categories:<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> <ul><li>(1) The g̲h̲āzīs or early Muslims saints who preached the faith in the region and were often martyred for their religion. Some of the most famous and widely venerated saints of this category include the <a href="/wiki/Prophet" title="Prophet">prophet</a> <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a>'s companion <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ayyub_al-Ansari" title="Abu Ayyub al-Ansari">Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī</a> (d. 674), who was killed beneath the walls of <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> and was honored as a martyr shortly thereafter,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a> and Sayyid Baṭṭāl G̲h̲āzī (d. ninth-century), who fought the Christians in <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Umayyad" class="mw-redirect" title="Umayyad">Umayyad</a> period.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a></li> <li>(2) Sufi saints, who were most often Sunni mystics who belonged to the <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> school of Sunni jurisprudence and were attached to one of the orthodox Sufi orders like the <a href="/wiki/Naqshbandi" title="Naqshbandi">Naqshbandi</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Mevlevi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mevlevi">Mevlevi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a></li> <li>(3) The "greats figures of Islam", both pre-Islamic and those who came after <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a>, as well as certain sainted rulers.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-1">[1]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reverence_of_Awliya_Allah">Reverence of Awliya Allah</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Reverence of Awliya Allah">edit</a>]</div> Reverence for Awliya Allah have been an important part of both <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shia" class="mw-redirect" title="Shia">Shia</a> Islamic tradition that particularly important classical saints have served as the heavenly advocates for specific Muslim empires, nations, cities, towns, and villages.<a href="#cite_note-Martin_Lings_1983,_pp._119-120-52">[51]</a> With regard to the sheer omnipresence of this belief, the late Martin Lings wrote: "There is scarcely a region in the empire of Islam which has not a Sufi for its Patron Saint."<a href="#cite_note-53">[52]</a> As the veneration accorded saints often develops purely organically in Islamic climates, the Awliya Allah are often recognized through popular acclaim rather than through official declaration.<a href="#cite_note-Martin_Lings_1983,_pp._119-120-52">[51]</a> Traditionally, it has been understood that the Wali'Allah of a particular place prays for that place's well-being and for the health and happiness of all who live therein.<a href="#cite_note-Martin_Lings_1983,_pp._119-120-52">[51]</a> Here is a partial list of Muslim Awliya Allah: <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nizamuddin_Dargah_and_Jamaat_Khana_Masjid,_Delhi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Nizamuddin_Dargah_and_Jamaat_Khana_Masjid%2C_Delhi.jpg/170px-Nizamuddin_Dargah_and_Jamaat_Khana_Masjid%2C_Delhi.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Nizamuddin_Dargah_and_Jamaat_Khana_Masjid%2C_Delhi.jpg/255px-Nizamuddin_Dargah_and_Jamaat_Khana_Masjid%2C_Delhi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Nizamuddin_Dargah_and_Jamaat_Khana_Masjid%2C_Delhi.jpg/340px-Nizamuddin_Dargah_and_Jamaat_Khana_Masjid%2C_Delhi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The shrine of <a href="/wiki/Nizamuddin_Auliya" title="Nizamuddin Auliya">Niẓām al-Dīn Awliyā</a> (d. 1325) in <a href="/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a>, India, where he is honored as an Awliya Allah of the city; the shrine is the most popular site of Muslim pilgrimage in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian subcontinent</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mausoleum_of_Khoja_Ahmed_Yasawi_in_Hazrat-e_Turkestan,_Kazakhstan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Mausoleum_of_Khoja_Ahmed_Yasawi_in_Hazrat-e_Turkestan%2C_Kazakhstan.jpg/170px-Mausoleum_of_Khoja_Ahmed_Yasawi_in_Hazrat-e_Turkestan%2C_Kazakhstan.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Mausoleum_of_Khoja_Ahmed_Yasawi_in_Hazrat-e_Turkestan%2C_Kazakhstan.jpg/255px-Mausoleum_of_Khoja_Ahmed_Yasawi_in_Hazrat-e_Turkestan%2C_Kazakhstan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Mausoleum_of_Khoja_Ahmed_Yasawi_in_Hazrat-e_Turkestan%2C_Kazakhstan.jpg/340px-Mausoleum_of_Khoja_Ahmed_Yasawi_in_Hazrat-e_Turkestan%2C_Kazakhstan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4205" data-file-height="2688" /></a><figcaption>The shrine of <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Yasavi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahmad Yasavi">Aḥmad Yesewī</a> (d. 1166) in <a href="/wiki/Turkistan,_Kazakhstan" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkistan, Kazakhstan">Turkistan, Kazakhstan</a>, where he is honored as an Awliya Allah of the country; the shrine was commissioned by <a href="/wiki/Timur" title="Timur">Timur</a> in 1389</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Country</th> <th>Awliya Allah</th> <th>Life dates</th> <th>Notes</th> <th>Location </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ali" title="Ali">Ali ibn Abi Talib</a></td> <td>d. 661</td> <td>Cousin and son in law of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_in_Islam" title="Muhammad in Islam">Muhammad</a> and 4th <a href="/wiki/Rashidun_Caliphate" title="Rashidun Caliphate">Rashidun Caliph</a>. Believed to be buried in <a href="/wiki/Mazar-i-Sharif" title="Mazar-i-Sharif">Mazar Sharif</a> in <a href="/wiki/Naqshbandi" title="Naqshbandi">Naqshbandi sunni belief</a>.</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mazar-i-Sharif" title="Mazar-i-Sharif">Mazar Sharif</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balkh_Province" title="Balkh Province">Balkh Province</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Maudood_Chishti" title="Maudood Chishti">Mir Maudood Chishti</a></td> <td>d. 1139</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chishti_Order" title="Chishti Order">Chishti</a> <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a> mystic, <a href="/wiki/Mir_(title)" title="Mir (title)">Mir</a> of the descendants of the family of the <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_al-Mahdi" title="Muhammad al-Mahdi">12th Imam</a>, descending from <a href="/wiki/Hasan_al-Askari" title="Hasan al-Askari">Imam Hasan al Askari</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chishti_Sharif" title="Chishti Sharif">Chisht</a> in <a href="/wiki/Herat" title="Herat">Herat</a> Province. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sanai" title="Sanai">Sanā'ī</a></td> <td>d. 1131/1141</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a> mystic, <a href="/wiki/Sufi_poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Sufi poetry">Sufi poet</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abu_Madyan" title="Abu Madyan">Abū Madyan</a></td> <td>d. 1197–98</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Tlemcen" title="Tlemcen">Tlemcen</a>; in the words of one scholar,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch">who?</a>] "the city has grown and developed under the beneficent aegis of the great saint, and the town of al-ʿUbbād has grown up round his tomb"<a href="#cite_note-54">[53]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Rahman_al-Tha%27alibi" title="Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi">ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-T̲h̲aʿālibī</a></td> <td>d. c. 1200</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Algiers" title="Algiers">Algiers</a><a href="#cite_note-55">[54]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shah_Jalal" title="Shah Jalal">Shah Jalal</a></td> <td>d. 1347</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sufi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sufi">Sufi</a> saint and mystic of the <a href="/wiki/Suhrawardiyya" title="Suhrawardiyya">Suhrawardiyya</a> order, born in modern-day Turkey he travelled to the Indian subcontinent and settled in the North-East Bengal and Assam spreading Islam across the area and became the main guide to the new Muslim population of Eastern Bengal. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Khan_Jahan_Ali" title="Khan Jahan Ali">Khan Jahan Ali</a></td> <td>d. 1459</td> <td>Born in modern <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a>, he travelled to southern Bengal to spread Islam; he built the <a href="/wiki/Mosque_city_of_Bagerhat" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosque city of Bagerhat">mosque city of Bagerhat</a> and cleared the Sunderbans for human settlement. He developed southern Bengal by linking Bagerghat to the trade city of Chittagong and <a href="/wiki/Sonargaon" title="Sonargaon">Sonargaon</a> and introduced Islamic education there.</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Akhi_Siraj_Aainae_Hind" class="mw-redirect" title="Akhi Siraj Aainae Hind">Akhi Siraj Aainae Hind</a></td> <td>d. 14 century</td> <td>Sufi saint (born in Gaur, West Bengal) of the <a href="/wiki/Chishti" class="mw-redirect" title="Chishti">Chishti</a> order, he spread Islam across Northern Bengal and Western Bihar, he was also the administrator of Northern Bengal under the Sultan <a href="/wiki/Shamsuddin_Ilyas_Shah" title="Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah">Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah</a> developing the area. His dargah in Malda is one of the largest in South Asia and gathers thousands a year.</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/23px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/35px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/45px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abu_al-Hasan_al-Shadhili" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili">Abu'l-Ḥasan al-S̲h̲ād̲h̲ilī</a></td> <td>d. 1258</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence and founder of the <a href="/wiki/Shadiliyya" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadiliyya">Shadiliyya</a> <a href="/wiki/Tariqa" title="Tariqa">tariqa</a></td> <td>Many parts of <a href="/wiki/Upper_Egypt" title="Upper Egypt">Upper Egypt</a>, but particularly among the ʿAbābda tribe<a href="#cite_note-56">[55]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abu_Haggag_Mosque#Yusuf_Abu_el_Haggag" title="Abu Haggag Mosque">Abū l-Ḥajjāj of Luxor</a></td> <td>d. 1244</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Luxor" title="Luxor">Luxor</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-57">[56]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>ʿAbd al-Raḥīm of Qena</td> <td>d. 1196</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence, and famous defender of orthodoxy in the area</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Qena" title="Qena">Qena</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-57">[56]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abadir_Umar_ar-Rida" title="Abadir Umar ar-Rida">Abādir ʿUmar al-Riḍā</a></td> <td>d. c. 1300</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Shafi%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafi'i">Shafi'i</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Harar" title="Harar">Harar</a>; according to one scholar,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch">who?</a>] "Harar later came to be known as Madīnat al-Awliyāʾ ('the city of saints') for the shrines of hundreds of saints in and around Harar"<a href="#cite_note-58">[57]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aw_Barkhadle" class="mw-redirect" title="Aw Barkhadle">Abū Barakāt Yūsuf Al-Kawnayn Al-Barbari</a></td> <td>d. c. 1200</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> saint and scholar of <a href="/wiki/Shafi%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafi'i">Shafi'i</a> jurisprudence. He is considered the forefather of the <a href="/wiki/Walashma_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Walashma Dynasty">Walashma Dynasty</a>.</td> <td>Travelled a lot from <a href="/wiki/Harar" title="Harar">Harar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zeila" title="Zeila">Zeila</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dhogor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dhogor (page does not exist)">Dhogor</a> and even <a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a>, where he spread Islam. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Isaaq" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheikh Isaaq">Ash-Shaykh Diyā Ud-Dīn Ishāq Ibn Ahmad Ar-Ridhāwi Al-Maytī</a></td> <td>d. c. 1300</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> scholar and traveler of <a href="/wiki/Husaynid" class="mw-redirect" title="Husaynid">Husaynid</a> lineage. He is the eponymous ancestor of the <a href="/wiki/Isaaq" title="Isaaq">isaaq</a> clan-family.</td> <td>Travelled from <a href="/wiki/Hijaz" class="mw-redirect" title="Hijaz">Hijāz</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yaman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abyssinia" title="Abyssinia">Bilād Al-Habasha</a> and finally the city of <a href="/wiki/Maydh" title="Maydh">Maydh</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> India </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nizamuddin_Auliya" title="Nizamuddin Auliya">Niẓām al-Dīn Awliyā</a></td> <td>d. 1325</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a><a href="#cite_note-59">[58]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nagore_Shahul_Hamid" title="Nagore Shahul Hamid">S̲h̲āh al-Ḥamīd ʿAbd al-Ḳādir</a></td> <td>ob. 1600</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Shafi%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafi'i">Shafi'i</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>Town of <a href="/wiki/Nagore" title="Nagore">Nagore</a><a href="#cite_note-60">[59]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mu%27in_al-Din_Chishti" title="Mu'in al-Din Chishti">Chishtī Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥasan Sijzī</a></td> <td></td> <td>Mystic of Chishti order</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Srinagar" title="Srinagar">Srinagar</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Moinuddin_Hadi_Naqshband" title="Moinuddin Hadi Naqshband">Mu'in al-Din Hadi Naqshband Mirza</a></td> <td></td> <td>Mystic of Naqshbandi order and son in law of <a href="/wiki/Jahangir" title="Jahangir">Emperor Jahangir</a>; Buried alongside 3 generations of his successors in the <a href="/wiki/Ziyarat_Naqshband_Sahab" title="Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab">Ziyarat Naqshband Memorial Complex</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Ajmer" title="Ajmer">Ajmer</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bābā Nūr al-Dīn Ris̲h̲ī</td> <td>d. 1377</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> <a href="/wiki/Ascetic" class="mw-redirect" title="Ascetic">ascetic</a> and mystic</td> <td>Town of <a href="/wiki/Bijbehara" title="Bijbehara">Bijbehara</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-62">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-63">[62]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /> <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Daniel_(biblical_figure)" title="Daniel (biblical figure)">Daniel</a></td> <td>d. 600 BCE</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew">Hebrew</a> <a href="/wiki/Prophet" title="Prophet">prophet</a> who is venerated in Islamic tradition</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Shush,_Iran" title="Shush, Iran">Shush</a>, where the most popular shrine devoted to him is located </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/45px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Husayn_ibn_Ali" title="Husayn ibn Ali">Husayn ibn Ali</a></td> <td>d. 680</td> <td>grandson of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Third_imam" class="mw-redirect" title="Third imam">Third imam</a> for <a href="/wiki/Shia" class="mw-redirect" title="Shia">Shia</a> Muslims</td> <td>All <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> for both Shia and Sunni Muslims, but especially the city of <a href="/wiki/Karbala" title="Karbala">Karbala</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul-Qadir_Gilani" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul-Qadir Gilani">ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī</a></td> <td>d. 1166</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic and <a href="/wiki/Jurist" title="Jurist">jurist</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hanbali" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanbali">Hanbali</a> jurisprudence and founder of the <a href="/wiki/Qadiriyya" title="Qadiriyya">Qadiriyya</a> <a href="/wiki/Tariqa" title="Tariqa">tariqa</a></td> <td>All <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> in classical Sunni piety, but especially the city of <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[63]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Yasawi" title="Ahmad Yasawi">Aḥmad Yesewī</a></td> <td>d. 1166</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> jurisprudence and founder of the Yesewīyya <a href="/wiki/Tariqa" title="Tariqa">tariqa</a></td> <td>All of <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a>; additionally, venerated as the Wali of all the modern nation states comprising the pre-modern <a href="/wiki/Turkestan" title="Turkestan">Turkestan</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[64]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="10"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abu_Shuayb" title="Abu Shuayb">Abū S̲h̲uʿayb Ayyūb b. Saʿīd al-Ṣinhāj̲ī</a> (in the vernacular "Mūlāy Būs̲h̲ʿīb")</td> <td>d. c. 1100</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Azemmour" title="Azemmour">Azemmour</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[65]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sidi_Ahmed_Ou_Moussa_(saint)" title="Sidi Ahmed Ou Moussa (saint)">Ḥmād u-Mūsā</a></td> <td>d. 1563</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence and the <a href="/wiki/Shadiliyya" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadiliyya">Shadiliyya</a> <a href="/wiki/Tariqa" title="Tariqa">tariqa</a></td> <td>Region of <a href="/wiki/Sous" title="Sous">Sous</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[66]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abu_al-Abbas_as-Sabti" title="Abu al-Abbas as-Sabti">Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Ḵh̲azrajī Abu 'l-ʿAbbās al-Sabtī</a></td> <td>d. 1205</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Marrakesh" title="Marrakesh">Marrakesh</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sidi_Belyout" title="Sidi Belyout">Sidi Belliūt</a></td> <td>d. c. 1500 [?]</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Casablanca" title="Casablanca">Casablanca</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[67]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Ashir" title="Ibn Ashir">Ibn ʿĀs̲h̲ir</a></td> <td>d. 1362–63</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Sal%C3%A9" title="Salé">Salé</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[68]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abu_Muhammad_Salih_al-Majiri" title="Abu Muhammad Salih al-Majiri">Abū Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ</a> |d. 1500 [?]</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Safi,_Morocco" title="Safi, Morocco">Safi</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[69]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sharif_ibn_Ali" title="Sharif ibn Ali">Mūlāy ʿAlī Bū G̲h̲ālem</a></td> <td>d. 1200 [?]</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>Town of <a href="/wiki/Alcazarquivir" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcazarquivir">Alcazarquivir</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Idris_I_of_Morocco" title="Idris I of Morocco">Idris I of Morocco</a></td> <td>d. 791</td> <td>First Islamic ruler and founder of the <a href="/wiki/Idrisid_dynasty" title="Idrisid dynasty">Idrisid dynasty</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Fez,_Morocco" title="Fez, Morocco">Fez</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[70]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>ʿAbd al-Ḳādir Muḥammad</td> <td>d. c. 1500 [?]</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>Town of <a href="/wiki/Figuig" title="Figuig">Figuig</a><a href="#cite_note-72">[71]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā</td> <td>d. 16th century</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Meknes" title="Meknes">Meknes</a><a href="#cite_note-73">[72]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dan_Marina" title="Dan Marina">Muhammad ibn al-Sabbagh</a> (in <a href="/wiki/Hausa_language" title="Hausa language">Hausa</a> Dan Marina) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Floruit" title="Floruit">fl</a>. 1640 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki_school" title="Maliki school">Maliki</a> jurisprudence </td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Katsina" title="Katsina">Katsina</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dan_Masanih" title="Dan Masanih">Dan Masanih</a> </td> <td>1595 – 1667 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki_school" title="Maliki school">Maliki</a> jurisprudence </td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Katsina" title="Katsina">Katsina</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="10"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Shah_Ghazi" title="Abdullah Shah Ghazi">ʿAbd Allāh S̲h̲āh G̲h̲āzī</a></td> <td>d. c. 800</td> <td>Early Muslim mystic and <a href="/wiki/Preacher" title="Preacher">preacher</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[73]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ali_Hujwiri" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Hujwiri">Abu 'l-Ḥasan Ali Huj̲wīrī</a></td> <td>d. 1072–1077</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> jurisprudence; often referred to as Dātā Ganj̲bak̲h̲s̲h̲ by Pakistanis</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a><a href="#cite_note-75">[74]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bulleh_Shah" title="Bulleh Shah">ʿAbd Allāh S̲h̲āh Qādri</a></td> <td>d. 1757</td> <td>Muslim <a href="/wiki/Sufi_poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Sufi poetry">Sufi poet</a> and philosopher of <a href="/wiki/Qadiriyya" title="Qadiriyya">Qadiriyya</a> <a href="/wiki/Tariqa" title="Tariqa">tariqa</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Kasur" title="Kasur">Kasur</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Baha-ud-din_Zakariya" class="mw-redirect" title="Baha-ud-din Zakariya">Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakarīyā</a></td> <td>d. 1170</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> jurisprudence and the <a href="/wiki/Suhrawardiyya" title="Suhrawardiyya">Suhrawardiyya</a> <a href="/wiki/Tariqa" title="Tariqa">tariqa</a></td> <td>Vast areas of south-west <a href="/wiki/Punjab" title="Punjab">Punjab</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lal_Shahbaz_Qalandar" title="Lal Shahbaz Qalandar">Lāl Shāhbāz Q̣alandar</a></td> <td>d. 1275</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Sehwan_Sharif" class="mw-redirect" title="Sehwan Sharif">Sehwan Sharif</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Syed_Bilawal_Shah_Noorani" title="Syed Bilawal Shah Noorani">Bilāwal S̲h̲āh Nūraniʾ</a></td> <td>d. ?</td> <td>Sufi mystic buried in <a href="/wiki/Lahoot_Lamakan" title="Lahoot Lamakan">Lahoot Lamakan</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Khuzdar" title="Khuzdar">Khuzdar</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hazrat_Ishaan" title="Hazrat Ishaan">HH The Hazrat Ishaan</a></td> <td>d. 1642</td> <td>Aristocrat and Patron Saint of the <a href="/wiki/Mughal_dynasty" title="Mughal dynasty">Mughal Emperors</a> and <a href="/wiki/Khanate_of_Bukhara" title="Khanate of Bukhara">Shaybanid Khans of Bukhara</a> buried alongside his successor Khwaja Khawand Ahmad Hazrat Ishaan III, Khwaja Bahauddin Thani Hazrat Ishaan IV, <a href="/wiki/Sayyid_Mir_Jan" title="Sayyid Mir Jan">Sayyid Mir Jan Hazrat Ishaan VIII</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sayyid_Mahmud_Agha" title="Sayyid Mahmud Agha">Mir Mahmud Agha Hazrat Ishaan IX</a> in <a href="/wiki/Begampura" title="Begampura">Begampura</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sayyid_Kastir_Gul" title="Sayyid Kastir Gul">Sheikh Rahamkar</a></td> <td>d. 1653</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a> mystic and <a href="/wiki/Pir_(Sufism)" title="Pir (Sufism)">pir</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Nowshera_District" title="Nowshera District">Nowshera</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shah_Qabool_Aulia" title="Shah Qabool Aulia">S̲h̲āh Qabūl ʾAwliyāʾ</a></td> <td>d. 1767</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a> mystic and <a href="/wiki/Pir_(Sufism)" title="Pir (Sufism)">pir</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jalaluddin_Surkh-Posh_Bukhari" title="Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari">Jalālʾ al-Dīn Surk͟h Poṣ</a></td> <td>d. 1295</td> <td>Sufi saint and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_missionary_activity" title="Islamic missionary activity">missionary</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Uch_Sharif" class="mw-redirect" title="Uch Sharif">Uch Sharif</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Flag_of_Syria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Syria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Flag_of_Syria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Syria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Flag_of_Syria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Syria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> </td> <td>Arslān of Damascus</td> <td>d. 1160–1164</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[75]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sidi_Mahrez" title="Sidi Mahrez">Muḥriz b. K̲h̲alaf</a></td> <td>d. 1022</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Tunis" title="Tunis">Tunis</a><a href="#cite_note-77">[76]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Al-Maziri" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Maziri">Sīdī al-Māzarī</a></td> <td>d. 1300 [?]</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Monastir,_Tunisia" title="Monastir, Tunisia">Monastir</a><a href="#cite_note-78">[77]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>ʿAbd Allāh Abu 'l-Jimāl</td> <td>d. 1500 [?]</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maliki" class="mw-redirect" title="Maliki">Maliki</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Khroumire" class="mw-redirect" title="Khroumire">Khroumire</a><a href="#cite_note-79">[78]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Boulbaba" class="mw-redirect" title="Boulbaba">Boulbaba</a></td> <td>d. 7th century</td> <td>According to tradition, a <a href="/wiki/Sahaba" class="mw-redirect" title="Sahaba">companion</a> of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Gab%C3%A8s" title="Gabès">Gabès</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/35px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/45px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /> <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hac%C4%B1_Bayram-%C4%B1_Veli" class="mw-redirect" title="Hacı Bayram-ı Veli">Ḥājjī Bayrām Walī</a></td> <td>d. 1429–30</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Ankara" title="Ankara">Ankara</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[79]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Emīr Sulṭān</td> <td>d. 1455</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Bursa" title="Bursa">Bursa</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[80]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Miskin Baba</td> <td>d. 1858–59</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>Island of <a href="/wiki/Ada_Kaleh" title="Ada Kaleh">Ada Kaleh</a>, which was at one time under the control of the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>; island was submerged in 1970 during the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Iron_Gate_I_Hydroelectric_Power_Station" title="Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station">Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station</a><a href="#cite_note-82">[81]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rumi" title="Rumi">Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī</a></td> <td>d. 1273</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Maturidi" class="mw-redirect" title="Maturidi">Maturidi</a> creed</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Konya" title="Konya">Konya</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Uzbekistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /> <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Qutham_ibn_Abbas" title="Qutham ibn Abbas">Qutham b. ʿAbbās</a></td> <td>d. 676</td> <td>Early Muslim <a href="/wiki/Martyr" title="Martyr">martyr</a></td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Samarkand" title="Samarkand">Samarkand</a><a href="#cite_note-83">[82]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Zangī Ātā</td> <td>d. 1269</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Tashkent" title="Tashkent">Tashkent</a><a href="#cite_note-84">[83]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a> </td> <td>Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Bā ʿAlāwī</td> <td>d. 1255</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Shafi%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafi'i">Shafi'i</a> jurisprudence and founder of the ʿAlāwiyya <a href="/wiki/Tariqa" title="Tariqa">tariqa</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hadhramaut" title="Hadhramaut">Hadhramaut</a></td> <td>Region of <a href="/wiki/Hadhramaut" title="Hadhramaut">Hadhramaut</a><a href="#cite_note-85">[84]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>S̲h̲aik̲h̲ Ṣadīq</td> <td>d. 1500 [?]</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Al_Hudaydah" title="Al Hudaydah">Al Hudaydah</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>ʿAlī b. ʿUmar al-S̲h̲ād̲h̲ilī</td> <td>d. 1400 [?]</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of the <a href="/wiki/Shadiliyya" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadiliyya">Shadiliyya</a> <a href="/wiki/Tariqa" title="Tariqa">tariqa</a></td> <td>Port-city of <a href="/wiki/Mokha" title="Mokha">Mokha</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Abū Bakr al-ʿAydarūs</td> <td>d. 1508</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> mystic of <a href="/wiki/Shafi%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafi'i">Shafi'i</a> jurisprudence</td> <td>City of <a href="/wiki/Aden" title="Aden">Aden</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[85]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amir_al-Mu%27minin" title="Amir al-Mu'minin">Amir al-Mu'minin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sufi_saints" title="List of Sufi saints">List of Sufi saints</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sufis" title="List of Sufis">List of Sufis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mawla" title="Mawla">Mawla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mawl%C4%81n%C4%81" title="Mawlānā">Mawlānā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pir_(Sufism)" title="Pir (Sufism)">Pir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wali_(Islamic_legal_guardian)" title="Wali (Islamic legal guardian)">Wali (Islamic legal guardian)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wali_(administrative_title)" title="Wali (administrative title)">Wali (administrative title)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wali_al-Ahd" title="Wali al-Ahd">Wali al-Ahd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wali_Sanga" title="Wali Sanga">Wali Sanga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Verse_of_Wilayah" class="mw-redirect" title="The Verse of Wilayah">The Verse of Wilayah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Righteous_Among_the_Nations" title="Righteous Among the Nations">Righteous Among the Nations</a></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=14" 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Ḳ. al-Sāmarrāʾī, Bag̲h̲dād 1967</li> <li>al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmid̲h̲ī, K. K̲h̲atm al-awliyāʾ, ed. O. Yaḥyā, Beirut 1965</li> <li>idem, K. Sīrat al-awliyāʾ, ed. B. Radtke, in Drei Schrijten, i, 1-134, Beirut 1992</li> <li>idem, al-Farḳ bayn al-āyāt wa 'l-karāmāt, ms. Ankara, Ismail Saib i, 1571, fols. 152b-177b</li> <li>idem, Badʾ s̲h̲aʾn Abī ʿAbd Allāh, ed. Yaḥyā, in Tirmid̲h̲ī, K̲h̲atm, 14-32, facs. and German tr. in Radtke, Tirmid̲iana minora, 244-77, Eng. tr. in Radtke and O'Kane, Concept of sainthood, 15-36. Handbooks.</li> <li>Bādisī, "al-Maḳṣad", tr. G. Colin, in Archives marocaines, xxvi-xxvii (1926)</li> <li>G̲h̲ubrīnī, ʿUnwān al-dirāya, Algiers 1970</li> <li>Hud̲j̲wīrī, Kas̲h̲f al-maḥd̲j̲ūb, ed. V. Zhukovsky, repr. Tehran 1336/1958, 265 ff., tr. Nicholson, The Kashf al-mahjūb. The oldest Persian treatise on Sufism, Leiden-London 1911, 210-41</li> <li>Kalābād̲h̲ī, al-Taʿarruf li-mad̲h̲hab ahl al-taṣawwuf ed. Arberry, Cairo 1934, tr. idem, The doctrine of the Sufis, 2, Cambridge 1977, ch. 26</li> <li>Sarrād̲j̲, K. al-Lumaʿ fi 'l-taṣawwuf, ed. Nicholson, Leiden-London 1914, 315-32, Ger. tr. R. Gramlich, Schlaglichter über das Sufitum, Stuttgart 1990, 449-68</li> <li>Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī, Ḳūt al-ḳulūb, Cairo 1932, Ger. tr. Gramlich, Die Nährung der Herzen, Wiesbaden 1992–95, index, s.v. Gottesfreund</li> <li>Ḳus̲h̲ayrī, Risāla, many eds., Ger. tr. Gramlich, Das Sendschreiben al-Qušayrīs, Wiesbaden 1989, index, s.v. Gottesfreund</li> <li>ʿAmmār al-Bidlīsī, Zwei mystische Schriften, ed. E. Badeen, forthcoming Beirut</li> <li>Ibn al-ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya, Cairo 1329–1911.</li> <li>idem, Rūḥ al-ḳuds, Damascus 1964, Eng. tr. R.W. Austin, The Sufis of Andalusia, London 1971, Fr. tr. G. Leconte, Les Soufies d'Andalousie, Paris 1995</li> <li>F. Meier, Die Vita des Scheich Abū Isḥāq al-Kāzarūnī, Leipzig 1948</li> <li>Muḥammad b. Munawwar, Asrār al-tawḥīd fī maḳāmāt al-S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Abī Saʿīd, ed. Muḥammad S̲h̲afīʿī-i Kadkanī, Tehran 1366-7, Eng. tr. J. O'Kane, The secrets of God's mystical oneness, New York 1992</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=%27Aziz_Nasafi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="'Aziz Nasafi (page does not exist)">ʿAzīz al-Dīn Nasafī</a>, K. al-Insān al-kāmil, ed. M. Mole, Tehran-Paris 1962, 313-25</li> <li>Ibn Taymiyya, al-Furḳān bayna awliyāʾ al-Raḥmān wa-awliyāʾ al-S̲h̲ayṭān, Cairo 1366/1947</li> <li>idem, Ḥaḳīḳat mad̲h̲hab al-ittiḥādiyyīn, in Mad̲j̲mūʿat al-Rasāʾil wa 'l-masāʾil, iv, Cairo n.d., 1 ff.</li> <li>Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh, Laṭāʾif al-minan, Fr. tr. E. Geoffroy, La sagesse des maîtres soufis, Paris 1998</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secondary">Secondary</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wali&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Secondary">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Corbin" class="mw-redirect" title="Henri Corbin">Henri Corbin</a>, En Islam iranien, esp. iii, Paris 1972</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michel_Chodkiewicz" title="Michel Chodkiewicz">Michel Chodkiewicz</a>, Le sceau des saints, Paris 1986</li> <li>Jahrhundert Hidschra. Eine Geschichte des religiösen Denkens im frühen Islam, i-vi, Berlin-New York 1991-7</li> <li>B. Radtke and J. O'Kane, The concept of sainthood in early Islamic mysticism, London 1996</li> <li>Radtke, Drei Schriften des Theosophen von Tirmid̲, i, Beirut-Stuttgart 1992, ii, Beirut-Stuttgart 1996</li> <li>R. Mach, Der Zaddik in Talmud und Midrasch, Leiden 1957</li> <li>Radtke, "Tirmid̲iana minora", in Oriens, xxxiv (1994), 242-98</li> <li>Gramlich, Die Wunder der Freunde Gottes, Wiesbaden 1987</li> <li>idem, Die schiitischen Derwischorden Persiens, Wiesbaden 1965–81, ii, 160-5 (on the hierarchy of saints)</li> <li>C. Ernst, Ruzbihan Baqli, London 1996</li> <li>Radtke, "Zwischen Traditionalisms und Intellektualismus. Geistesgeschichtliche und historiografische Bemerkungen zum Ibrīz des Aḥmad b. al-Mubārak al-Lamaṭī", in Built on solid rock. Festschrift für Ebbe Knudsen, Oslo 1997, 240-67</li> <li>H.S. Nyberg, Kleinere Schriften des Ibn al-ʿArabī, Leiden 1919, 103-20</li> <li>A. Afifi, The mystical philosophy of Muhyid-din Ibnul-ʿArabi, Cambridge 1939</li> <li>W. Chittick, The Sufi path of knowledge, Albany 1989</li> <li>Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, The Tijaniyya. A Sufi order in the modern world, London 1965</li> <li>Radtke, "Lehrer-Schüler-Enkel. Aḥmad b. Idrīs, Muḥammad ʿUt̲mān al-Mīrġanī, Ismāʿīl al-Walī", in Oriens, xxxiii (1992), 94-132</li> <li>I. Goldziher, "Die Heiligenverehrung im Islam", in Muh. Stud., ii, 275-378</li> <li>Grace Martin Smith and C.W. Ernst (eds.), Manifestations of sainthood in Islam, Istanbul 1993</li> <li>H.-Ch. Loir et Cl. 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Hezzab">Bash Hezzab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dervish" title="Dervish">Dervish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fakir" title="Fakir">Fakir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)" title="Hafiz (Quran)">Hafiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hezzab" title="Hezzab">Hezzab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imam" title="Imam">Imam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khatib" title="Khatib">Khatib</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Majzoob_(Sufism)" title="Majzoob (Sufism)">Majzoob</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marabout" title="Marabout">Marabout</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mudaqiq&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mudaqiq (page does not exist)">Mudaqiq</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%82%D9%82_(%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9)" class="extiw" title="ar:مدقق (صوفية)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muqaddam" title="Muqaddam">Muqaddam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muqarrab_(Sufism)" title="Muqarrab (Sufism)">Muqarrab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murshid" title="Murshid">Murshid</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mutahaqiq&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mutahaqiq (page does not exist)">Mutahaqiq</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%82_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%82_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%82" class="extiw" title="ar:متحقق بالحق والخلق">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murid" title="Murid">Murid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nass_al-Houdhour" title="Nass al-Houdhour">Nass al-Houdhour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pir_(Sufism)" title="Pir (Sufism)">Pir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qalandar_(title)" title="Qalandar (title)">Qalandar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q%C4%81ri%CA%BE" title="Qāriʾ">Qāriʾ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qutb" title="Qutb">Qutb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rabbani_(Sufism)" title="Rabbani (Sufism)">Rabbani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salik" title="Salik">Salik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_(Sufism)" title="Sheikh (Sufism)">Sheikh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siddiq" title="Siddiq">Siddiq</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sufis_ranks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sufis ranks (page does not exist)">Sufis ranks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talibe" title="Talibe">Talibe</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Seven_ranks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Seven ranks (page does not exist)">The Seven ranks</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:المراتب السبعة">ar</a>]</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wasil_(Sufism)" title="Wasil (Sufism)">Wasil</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="9" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Raising_hands_in_Dua" title="Raising hands in Dua"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/IslamSymbol.svg/160px-IslamSymbol.svg.png" decoding="async" width="160" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/IslamSymbol.svg/240px-IslamSymbol.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/IslamSymbol.svg/320px-IslamSymbol.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="213" data-file-height="213" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aayane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aayane (page does not exist)">Aayane</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)" class="extiw" title="ar:أعيان (تصوف)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aayane_Thabita&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aayane Thabita (page does not exist)">Aayane Thabita</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:الأعيان الثابتة">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">Aql</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baqaa" title="Baqaa">Baqaa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhawq" title="Dhawq">Dhawq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fana_(Sufism)" title="Fana (Sufism)">Fana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghaflah" title="Ghaflah">Ghaflah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hal_(Sufism)" title="Hal (Sufism)">Hal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hijab_(Sufism)" title="Hijab (Sufism)">Hijab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huwa" title="Huwa">Huwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ihsan" title="Ihsan">Ihsan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishq" title="Ishq">Ishq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ismul_Azam" class="mw-redirect" title="Ismul Azam">Ismul Azam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lataif-e-Sitta" title="Lataif-e-Sitta">Lataif-e-Sitta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maqam_(Sufism)" title="Maqam (Sufism)">Maqam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nafs" title="Nafs">Nafs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qalb" title="Qalb">Qalb</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ran_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ran (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Ran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C5%AB%E1%B8%A5" title="Rūḥ">Rūḥ</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sadr_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sadr (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Sadr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yaqeen" title="Yaqeen">Yaqeen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wird_(Sufism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wird (Sufism)">Awrad</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dhikr" title="Dhikr">Dhikr</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Djamaa_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Djamaa (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Djamaa</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9_(%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%88%D9%83)" class="extiw" title="ar:جمع (سلوك)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Djoua_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Djoua (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Djoua</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B9_(%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)" class="extiw" title="ar:جوع (تصوف)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dua" title="Dua">Dua</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ibara_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ibara (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Ibara</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9_(%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9)" class="extiw" title="ar:عبارة (صوفية)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ichara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ichara (page does not exist)">Ichara</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9_(%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9)" class="extiw" title="ar:إشارة (صوفية)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Latifa_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Latifa (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Latifa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lazimi" title="Lazimi">Lazimi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Muhasabah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Muhasabah (page does not exist)">Muhasabah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muraqabah" title="Muraqabah">Muraqabah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raising_hands_in_Dua" class="mw-redirect" title="Raising hands in Dua">Raising hands in Dua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabr" title="Sabr">Sabr</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sahar_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sahar (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Sahar</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%87%D8%B1_(%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)" class="extiw" title="ar:سهر (تصوف)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salat_al-Fatih" title="Salat al-Fatih">Salat al-Fatih</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salawat" title="Salawat">Salawat</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samt_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samt (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Samt</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%85%D8%AA_(%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)" class="extiw" title="ar:صمت (تصوف)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shuhud_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shuhud (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Shuhud</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF_(%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)" class="extiw" title="ar:شهود (تصوف)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shukr" title="Shukr">Shukr</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sufism_pillars&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sufism pillars (page does not exist)">Sufism pillars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemplation" title="Contemplation">Tafakur</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tahara_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tahara (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Tahara</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:طهارة معنوية">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tahlia_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tahlia (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Tahlia</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_(%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9)" class="extiw" title="ar:تحلية (صوفية)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Takhlia_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Takhlia (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Takhlia</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_(%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9)" class="extiw" title="ar:تخلية (صوفية)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tawajud&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tawajud (page does not exist)">Tawajud</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AF" class="extiw" title="ar:تواجد">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tawakkul" title="Tawakkul">Tawakkul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tawassul" title="Tawassul">Tawassul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tazkiah" class="mw-redirect" title="Tazkiah">Tazkiah</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uzla_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uzla (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Uzla</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B2%D9%84%D8%A9_(%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)" class="extiw" title="ar:عزلة (تصوف)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wajd" title="Wajd">Wajd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wazifa" title="Wazifa">Wazifa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wazifa_Zarruqiyya" title="Wazifa Zarruqiyya">Zarruqiyya</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wird" title="Wird">Wird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asceticism" title="Asceticism">Zuhd</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Warid_(Sufism)" title="Warid (Sufism)">Waridates</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barakah" title="Barakah">Barakah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basirah" class="mw-redirect" title="Basirah">Basirah</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bast_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bast (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Bast</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%B7_(%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)" class="extiw" title="ar:بسط (تصوف)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Djadba&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Djadba (page does not exist)">Djadba</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B0%D8%A8%D8%A9_(%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)" class="extiw" title="ar:جذبة (تصوف)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fath_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fath (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Fath</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AD_(%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)" class="extiw" title="ar:فتح (تصوف)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haqiqa" title="Haqiqa">Haqiqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hidayah" title="Hidayah">Hidayah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afflatus" title="Afflatus">Ilham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irfan" title="Irfan">Irfan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illuminationism" title="Illuminationism">Ishrak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karamat" title="Karamat">Karamat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kashf" title="Kashf">Kashf</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Khatir_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Khatir (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Khatir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma%27rifa" title="Ma'rifa">Ma'rifa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C5%ABr_(Islam)" title="Nūr (Islam)">Nūr</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Qabdh_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Qabdh (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Qabdh</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%B6_(%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)" class="extiw" title="ar:قبض (تصوف)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rabita_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rabita (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Rabita</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B7%D8%A9_(%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9)" class="extiw" title="ar:رابطة (صوفية)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ru%27ya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ru'ya (page does not exist)">Ru'ya</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Secret_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Secret (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Secret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tajalli" title="Tajalli">Tajalli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thawab" title="Thawab">Thawab</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uns_(Sufism)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uns (Sufism) (page does not exist)">Uns</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B3" class="extiw" title="ar:أنس">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walayah" title="Walayah">Walayah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warid_(Sufism)" title="Warid (Sufism)">Warid</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Misconducts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antinomianism#Islamic_antinomianism" title="Antinomianism">Antinomianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monasticism" title="Monasticism">Rahbaniya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shath" title="Shath">Shath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubris" title="Hubris">Taqabbur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zandaqa" title="Zandaqa">Zandaqa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ceremonies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashura" title="Ashura">Ashura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bay%27ah" title="Bay'ah">Bay'ah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ha%E1%B8%8Dra" title="Haḍra">Haḍra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hizb_Rateb" title="Hizb Rateb">Hizb Rateb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idjaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Idjaza">Idjaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mawlid" title="Mawlid">Mawlid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mawsim" title="Mawsim">Mawsim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salka_(Sufism)" title="Salka (Sufism)">Salka</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sbooa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sbooa (page does not exist)">Sbooa</a> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbu%C3%A2" class="extiw" title="fr:Sbuâ">fr</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sebiba" title="Sebiba">Sebiba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silsila" 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