# List of Sufi saints

Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. In the traditional Islamic view, 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 miracles."

## Contents

* A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

### A

* Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili
* Ali Hisam-ad-Din Naqshbandi
* Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan (1934–2017, 12th Sheikh of Silsila Naqshbandia Owaisiah and writer of several books and 03 Tafaseer of the Holy Qur'an)
* Abdallah ibn Alawi al-Haddad (1634–1720, buried in Hadhramaut, author on several books on Dhikr)
* Abdullah Ansari
* Abdullah Shah Ghazi (d. 720, buried in Karachi)
* Abdul Khaliq Ghajadwani (d. 1179, buried in Bukhara, one of the Khwajagan of the Naqshbandi order)
* Abdul Qadir Gilani (1077–1166, buried in Baghdad, founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order)
* Abdul Razzaq Gilani (1134–1207, buried in Baghdad, son of Abdul Qadir Gilani, promoted the Qadiriyya order)
* Abu Ishaq Shami (d. 940, buried on Mount Qasioun, founder of the Chishti Order)
* Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (967–1049, buried in Miana, Turkmenistan, poet who innovated the use of love poetry to express mystic concepts)
* Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi (1219–1287, buried in Anfoushi, one of the four master saints of Egypt)
* Abul Hasan Hankari (1018–1093, buried in Baghdad, noted scholar and miracle worker)
* Adam Khaki (14th century, buried in Badarpur, Assam, took part in the Conquest of Sylhet and preached at Badarpur)
* Afaq Khoja (1626–1694, buried in Xinjiang, opposed the Chagatai Khanate's attempt to enforce Yassa law on Muslims)
* Ahmad Main Sarkar Qadri Chishti Rehamani Shakoori Abdul Ulai Jahangiri Rehmanpur Sharif Rahimyar Khan
* Ahamed Muhyudheen Noorishah Jeelani (1915–1990, buried in Hyderabad, India, founder of the Nooriya Sufi order)
* Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856–1921, buried in the Bareilly Sharif Dargah, reformer in British India)
* Ahmad Ghazali (1061 to 1123 or 1126, buried in Qazvin, younger brother of the more famous Al-Ghazali, reasoned that as God is absolute beauty, to adore any object of beauty is to participate in a divine act of love)
* Ahmad al-Tijani (1737–1815, buried in Fez, Morocco), founder of the Tijaniyyah order)
* Ahmadou Bamba (1853–1927, buried next to the Great Mosque of Touba, lead a pacifist struggle against the French colonial empire)
* Ahmad Yasawi (1093–1166, buried in the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, poet, founder of Turkish Sufism)
* Akshamsaddin (1389–1459, buried in Göynük, tutor and advisor to Mehmed the Conqueror)
* Akhundzada Saif-ur-Rahman Mubarak (1925–2010, buried in Lahore, founder of the Saifia Sufi order)
* Al-Busiri (1211–1294, buried in Alexandria, poet, author of the Qasida Burda)
* Wasif Ali Wasif (1929–1993, buried in Lahore, was a teacher, writer, poet, and Sufi saint from Pakistan)
* Habib al-Ajami (d. 738, buried in Basra)
* Abu Bakr al-Aydarus (1447–1508, buried in Aden, the patron saint of Aden, credited with introducing Qadiri Sufism to Ethiopia and coffee to the Arab world)
* Ahmad al-Badawi (1200–1276, buried in Ahmad Al-Badawi Mosque, most popular saint in Egypt)
* Khwaja Ahrar (1404–1490 AD), played a significant role in establishing the Naqshbandi Order
* Al-Ghazali (1058–1111, buried in Tus, Iran, considered a Mujaddid, author of The Revival of the Religious Sciences and The Incoherence of the Philosophers, influenced early modern European criticism of Aristotelian physics)
* Al-Hallaj (858–922, ashes scattered in the Tigris, imprisoned and executed after requesting "O Muslims, save me from God" and declaring "I am the Truth")
* Ali Hujwiri (1009–1072/77, buried in Lahore, Pakistan, author of Kashf ul Mahjoob, spread Sufism throughout the Indian Subcontinent)
* Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441–1501, buried in Herat, author of Muhakamat al-Lughatayn and founder of Turkic literature)
* Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani (963–1033, illiterate mystic who influenced Avicenna, Rumi, and Jami)
* Al-Qushayri (986–1072, buried in Nishapur, author who distinguished four layers of Quranic interpretation and defended the historical lineage of Sufism)
* Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari (1196–1291, buried near Haridwar, founder of the Sabiriya branch of the Chishti order)
* Amir Khusrau (1253–1325, buried in the Nizamuddin Dargah, influential musician, considered the "father of Urdu literature")
* Amir Kulal (1278–1370, buried near Bukhara, taught Timur and Baha' al-Din Naqshband)
* Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221, buried in the Mausoleum of Attar of Nishapur, author of The Conference of the Birds and the hagiographic Tazkirat al-Awliya)
* Aurangzeb (1618–1707), buried in Khuldabad, also known as Jinda Pir. Author of Fatwa e Alamgir.
* Azan Faqir (17th century, buried in Sivasagar near the Brahmaputra River, reformer who stabilized Islam in the Assam region)
* Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (1365–1424, expounded on the works of Ibn Arabi)
* Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi
* Abdul Aziz bin Hars bin Asad Yemeni Tamimi
* Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi
* Abu Bakr Shibli
* Ahmad Zarruq
* Arabati Baba Teḱe
* Ata Hussain Fani Chishti (1816–1893, buried in Gaya (India)) was a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in South Asia.

### B

* Baba Fakruddin (1169–1295, buried in Penukonda)
* 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 Naqshbandi order)
* Balım Sultan (d. 1517/1519, buried in Nevşehir Province, co-founder of the Bektashi Order)
* Bahauddin Zakariya (1170–1267, buried in the Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya, spread the Suhrawardiyya order through South Asia)
* Bande Nawaz (1321–1422, buried in Gulbarga, spread the Chishti Order to southern India)
* Khwaja Baqi Billah (1564–1605, buried in Delhi, spread the Naqshbandi order into India)
* Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (d. 1986, founder of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia)
* Bayazid Bastami (874/5-848/9, buried in Shrine of Bayazid Bostami, noted for his ideas on spiritual intoxication)
* Bibi Jamal Khatun (d. 1639 or 1647, lived in Sehwan Sharif, sister of Mian Mir)
* Bodla Bahar (1238–1298, buried in Sehwan Sharif, features in the miracle stories of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar)
* Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324, buried in Panipat)
* Bulleh Shah (1680–1757, buried in Kasur, regarded as "the father of Punjabi enlightenment")

### D

* Dara Shikoh (1615–1659, brother of Aurangzeb, author of Majma-ul-Bahrain)
* Daud Bandagi Kirmani (1513–1575, buried in Shergarh, Punjab)
* Dawūd al-Qayṣarī
* Dawud Tai (d. circa 777-782)
* Dhul-Nun al-Misri

### F

* Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi
* Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1188–1280, buried in the Shrine of Baba Farid, Pakpattan, Pakistan and developed Punjabi literature through poetry)
* Fazl Ahmad Khan (1857–1907), Indian Sufi teacher
* Fuzuli (1494–1556), considered one of the greatest poets of Azerbaijani literature)
* Imam Fassi

### G

* Ghulam Ali Dehlavi (1743–1824, buried in Delhi)
* Ghulam Farid (1845–1901), buried in Mithankot, poet
* Ghousi Shah (1893–1954, buried in Hyderabad)
* Gül Baba (d. 1541, buried in Tomb of Gül Baba, esoteric author and patron saint of Budapest)

### H

* Habib Noh (1788–1866, buried in Keramat Habib Noh)
* Hafez (1315–1390, buried in Tomb of Hafez, highly popular antinomian Persian poet whose works are regularly quoted and even used for divination)
* Haji Huud (1025–1141, buried in Patan, Gujarat, helped spread Islam in India)
* Haji Bayram Veli (1352–1430, buried in Ankara, founder of the Bayramiye order)
* Haji Bektash Veli (1209–1271, buried in the Haji Bektash Veli Complex, revered by both Alevis and Bektashis)
* Hamzah Fansuri (d. c. 1590, buried in Ujong Pacu, Aceh)
* Hasan al-Basri (642–728, buried in Az Zubayr, highly important figure in the development of Sunni Sufism)
* Hazrat Babajan (d. 1931, buried in Pune, master to Meher Baba)
* Hayreddin Tokadi
* Yusuf Hamdani (1062–1141, buried in Merv)
* Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (1314–1384, buried in Khatlon Region, spread the Kubrawiya order throughout Asia)
* Usman Harooni
* Ali Hujwiri

### I

* Iraqī (1213–1289)
* Ibrahim Niass
* Ibrahim ibn Adham
* Ibn Arabi
* Ibn Ata Allah
* Imam Ali-ul-Haq (925–971, buried in Sialkot).
* Ibrahim al-Dasuqi (1255–1296, buried in Desouk, founder of the Desouki order)
* İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (1703–1780, buried in Tillo, astronomer and encyclopedist, first Muslim author to cover post-Copernican astronomy)
* Ibrahim ibn Faïd (1396–1453)
* Imadaddin Nasimi
* Ismail Haqqi Bursevi (1653–1725, buried in Bursa, author noted for esoteric interpretations of the Quran)
* Ismail Qureshi al Hashmi (1260–1349)

### J

* Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari (1192–1291)
* Jamal-ud-Din Hansvi
* Jabir ibn Hayyan
* Ja'far al-Sadiq
* Jahanara Begum Sahib (1614–1681)
* Jahaniyan Jahangasht (1308–1384)
* Jamī

### K

* Kasim Baba, fifteenth century Bektashi holy man and missionary
* Khalid-i Baghdadi (1779–1827)
* Khalil Ur Rehman (Sohnay Main Sarkar) Qadri Chishti Rehamani Shakoori Abdul Ulai Jahangiri
Rehmanpur Sharif Rahimyar Khan
* Kabir (1398–1518)

### M

* Muhibbullah Allahabadi
* Aisha Al-Manoubya
* Madurai Maqbara
* Merkez Efendi
* Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (1699–1781)
* Muhammad Jaunpuri
* Muhammad al-Jazuli
* Syed Abdul Rehman Jilani Dehlvi (1024-1088)
* Abdul Karim Jili
* Junayd of Baghdad
* Khâlid-i Baghdâdî
* Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
* Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari
* Maruf Karkhi
* Khan Jahan Ali (d. 1459)
* Lal Shahbaz Qalander (1177–1274)
* Machiliwale Shah
* Magtymguly Pyragy
* Noor Muhammad Maharvi (1730–1791)
* Mahmoodullah Shah
* Mahmud Hudayi
* Madurai Maqbara
* Mir Amjad Ibrahim Ash Shadhili
* Meher Ali Shah
* Mian Mir (1550–1635)
* Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
* Sayyid Ali Hamadani
* Muhammad Suleman Taunsvi
* Mohammad Tartusi
* Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi (1013-1119)
* Muhammad Al-Makki
* Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi
* Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri
* Muqaddam
* Muhammad Qadiri (1552-1654)
* Mustafa Devati
* Mustafa Gaibi
* Mushtaq Ali Shah (?-1792)
* Makhdoom Ali Mahimi (1372–1431)
* Mohammed al-Hadi ben Issa (1467–1526, buried in Meknes, founder of the Aissawa order)
* Moinuddin Chishti (1141–1230, buried in the Ajmer Sharif Dargah, spread the Chishti order throughout India)
* Muhammad ibn `Ali at-Tirmidhi

### N

* Nadir Ali Shah
* Fazlallah Astarabadi
* Najm al-Din Razi
* Najmuddin Kubra
* Nazim Al-Haqqani
* Nasir Khusraw
* Nasreddin
* Nathar Vali
* Shah Niamatullah
* Shah Nimatullah Wali
* Nizamuddin Auliya
* Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi
* Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325)

### O

* Omar Khayyam
* Osman Fazli
* Otman Baba
* Owais al-Qarani

### P

* Pir Baba (1431–1502)
* Pir Sultan
* Pir Yemeni
* Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui (1936–2017)

### Q

* Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
* Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar
* Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
* Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki(1173–1235)

### R

* Ahmad Sirhindi (a.k.a. Imam Rabbani; ca. 1564–1624)
* Rabia Basri
* Rahman Baba
* Ahmed al-Rifa'i
* Rukn-e-Alam (1251–1335)
* Rumi

### S

* Saadi Shirazi
* Farqad Sabakhi
* Sachal Sarmast (1739-1827)
* Shaban Veli
* Shah Maroof Khushabi
* Sidi Boushaki
* Sahl al-Tustari
* Salim Chishti (1478–1572)
* Salman the Persian
* Sanai
* Syed Ahmad Sultan (12th-century)
* Sarı Saltık
* Sarmad Kashani (d. 1661)
* Saint Nuri
* Ashraf Jahangir Semnani (1308–1405)
* Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1689-1752)
* Shah Badakhshi (1584–1661)
* Sayed Badiuddin
* Shah Gardez (1026–1152)
* Shah Hussain (1538–1599)
* Shah Jalal (1271–1347)
* Shah Jalal Dakhini (d. 1476)
* Shah Amanat (d. 1809)
* Shah Paran (14th century)
* Shamas Faqir
* Shams Tabrizi
* Molla Şemseddin Fenari
* Sheikh Edebali
* Şeyh Gâlib
* Shah Syed Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani
* Syed Ahmad Ullah Maizbhandari (1826-1906)
* Soch Kraal
* Sufi Barkat Ali
* Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar Suhrawardi
* Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi
* Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat (1255-1346)
* Shaykh Syed Mir Mirak Andrabi ( 921A.H - 990 A.H)
* Somuncu Baba
* Sirri Saqti
* Sultan Bahu (1628–1691)
* Sultan Walad
* Shah Farid-ud-Din Baghdadi (c. 1551 AD – c. 1733 AD)
* Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
* Safi-ad-din Ardabili
* Sünbül Efendi

### T

* Tajuddin Muhammad Badruddin
* Telli Baba
* Taj Wali sarkar

### U

* Üftade
* Uthman Sirâj-ud-Dîn Naqshbandi

### W

* Waris Shah
* Waris Ali Shah

### Y

* Yahya bey Dukagjini
* Yahya Efendi
* Makhdoom Yahya Maneri (1263–1381)
* Khwaja Yunus Ali
* Yunus Emre

### Z

* Zahed Gilani