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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 ...
The Greco-Turkish force prevailed and John VI entered Constantinople in triumph on 8 February 1347. [10] [9] [a] Empress Anna and John VI agreed that the latter would rule as senior emperor for ten years, after which John V would reach seniority and share power as an equal to Kantakouzenos. The formal coronation of John VI took place on 21 May ...
John VI of Naples (died 1120 or 1123), Duke from 1097 or 1107 to his death; John VI the Affluent, Armenian Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia (1203–1221) John VI Kantakouzenos (1292–1383), Byzantine Emperor from 1347 to 1354; John VI, Count of Harcourt (1342–1389) John VI, Duke of Brittany (1389–1442) John VI, Duke of Mecklenburg ...
Pope John VI (Latin: Ioannes VI; 655 – 11 January 705) was the bishop of Rome from 30 October 701 to his death. John VI was a Greek from Ephesus who reigned during the Byzantine Papacy. His papacy was noted for military and political breakthroughs on the Italian Peninsula. He was succeeded by Pope John VII after a vacancy of less than two ...
The shrine was originally established as a simple grave next to the mosque which Ali Hujwiri had built on the outskirts of Lahore in the 11th century. [1] By the 13th century, the belief that the spiritual powers of great Sufi saints were attached to their burial sites was widespread in the Muslim world, [3] and so a larger shrine was built to commemorate the burial site of Hujwiri during the ...
Almost all Sufi orders trace their origins to 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Muhammad's cousin. The traditional silsila (spiritual lineage) of the Chishti order is as follows: [11] Muḥammad; Ali ibn Abu Talib; Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 728, an early Persian Muslim theologian) 'Abdul Wāḥid ibn Zaid Abul Faḍl (d. 793, an early Sufi saint)
In the Maghreb, the term is often used for a place where the founder of a Sufi order or a local saint or holy man (e.g. a wali) lived and was buried. [4] In the Maghreb the word can also be used to refer to the wider tariqa (Sufi order or brotherhood) and its membership.
Saint Francis of Assisi, National Shrine of; in San Francisco, California [58] National Shrine of Saint John Neumann; in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [59] Saint Joseph, Shrine of; in St. Louis, Missouri. [60] National Shrine of St. Jude; in Chicago, Illinois; St. Kateri Tekawitha, National Shrine of; in Fonda, New York