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Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. [1] In the traditional Islamic view, a saint is portrayed as someone "marked by [special] divine favor ...
Following the entrance of Islam in the early 8th century, Sufi mystic traditions became more visible during the 10th and 11th centuries of the Delhi Sultanate and after it to the rest of India. [3] A conglomeration of four chronologically separate dynasties, the early Delhi Sultanate consisted of rulers from Turkic and Afghan lands. [ 4 ]
His Maktoobat is regarded as a 'working manual' amongst the highest in Sufi circles. [10] Jackson, Paul (2002). Sharfuddin Maneri: The Hundred Letters. Patna: Khuda Baksh Oriental Library. Muti-ul-Imam, Syed (1993). Shaiky Sharfuddin Ahmad Bin Yahya Muneeri (in Urdu). Islamabad: Markaz Tahqiqat Farsi Iran-o-Pakistan.
Lovers shoot at a tiger in the jungle. Illustration to the mystical Sufi text Madhumalati. "Madhumalati" or 'night flowering jasmine' [1] is an Indian Sufi love poem, written in 1545 by Mir Sayyid Manjhan Shattari Rajgiri. [2] The poem is written in Awadhi dialect. [1]
Tales of the Dervishes is a collection of stories, parables, legends and fables gathered from classical Sufi texts and oral sources spanning a period from the 7th to the 20th centuries. An author's postscript to each story offers a brief account of its provenance, use and place in Sufi tradition.
Sufi literature consists of works in various languages that express and advocate the ideas of Sufism. Sufism had an important influence on medieval literature, especially poetry, that was written in Arabic , Persian , Punjabi , Turkic , Sindhi and Urdu .
Syed Ibrahim Khan (1548-1628) was an Indian Sufi Muslim poet who became a devotee of the Hindu deity Krishna. He was either born in Pihani (Hardoi) [1] or Amroha, in modern-day Uttar Pradesh, India. His original name was Saiyad Ibrahim and Raskhan was his takhallus (pen name) in Hindi. [1]
Waris Ali Shah (1817–1905) was a Sufi saint from Dewa, Barabanki, India, and the founder of the Warsi Sufi order. He traveled to many places specially Europe and the west and admitted people to his spiritual order. He is claimed to belong to the 26th generation of Hazrat Imam Hussain رضی اللہ عنہ [2] His shrine is at Dewa, India.