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The term was in use in the early Isma'ili movement for "a figure in the hierarchy of the missionary movement who participated in preaching an esoteric interpretation of the Islamic revelation". [1] The early Isma'ili missionary and author Ja'far ibn Mansur al-Yaman also applied the term to the designated successors of the Imams, and to Ali ibn ...
Baba ("father, grandfather, wise old man, sir") [1] is a Sanskrit honorific term, [2] used in several West Asian, South Asian and African cultures. It is used as a mark of respect to refer to Hindu ascetics ( sannyasis ) and Sikh gurus , as a suffix or prefix to their names, e.g. Sai Baba of Shirdi , Baba Ramdev , etc. [ 1 ] [ 3 ]
Baba Fakruddin (1169–1295, buried in Penukonda) [9] Baba Kuhi of Shiraz (948–1037) Baba Shadi Shaheed (17th century, first Chib Rajput to convert to Islam, married a daughter of Babur) Sheikh Bedreddin (1359–1420, buried in Istanbul in 1961, revolted against Mehmed I) Baha' al-Din Naqshband (1318–1389, buried in Bukhara, founder of the ...
Baba Farid-ud-Din Masud Ganj-i-Shakar, by Jafar Qasimi. Islamic Book Foundation. 1978. Sheikh Baba Farid aur unka Kavya, by Jayabhagavan Goyal. 1998, Atmarama & Sons. ISBN 81-7043-081-X. Savanih hayat Baba Farid Ganj-i Shakar, by Pir Ghulam Dastgir Nami. Madni Kutub Khanah. Baba Farid Ganjshakar, by Shabbir Hasan Cishti Nizami. Asthana Book Depot.
The original meaning of ṣūfī seems to have been "one who wears wool (ṣūf)", and the Encyclopaedia of Islam calls other etymological hypotheses "untenable". [2] [14] Woolen clothes were traditionally associated with ascetics and mystics. [2] Al-Qushayri and Ibn Khaldun both rejected all possibilities other than ṣūf on linguistic ...
Pir Dastgir, from the Mughal era. Pir (Persian: پیر, lit. 'elder') [1] or Peer is a title for a Sufi spiritual guide. They are also referred to as a Hazrat (from Arabic: حضرة, romanized: Haḍra) and Sheikh or Shaykh, which is literally the Arabic equivalent.
Sayyid Ali Tirmizi (Pashto: سيد علي ترمذي), more commonly known as Pir Baba (پير بابا), was a Sufi who settled in Buner in present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. There, he lived among the Yusufzai Pashtuns .
Telli Baba, Turkish Muslim saint; Sai Baba of Shirdi (c. 1838 –1918), Indian guru; Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011), born Sathya Narayana Raju, Indian guru purporting to be a reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi; Sersem Ali Baba, a 16th-century Ottoman dervish; Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed (born 1969), Nigerian economist and politician