Indian Sufis

The list Indian Sufis includes A.R. Rahman, Tajuddin Muhammad Badruddin, Salim Merchant, Sachal Sarmast and Malik Muhammad Jayasi. The list consists of 178 members and 6 sublists.

Indian Sufi saints
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Indian Sufi religious leaders
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Mughal Empire Sufis
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Punjabi Sufis
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Tamil Sufis
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A.R. Rahman

Indian composer and musician

Overview: Allahrakha Rahman (pronunciation ; born A. S. Dileep Kumar on 6 January 1967), known professionally as A. R. Rahman, is an Indian composer, singer and music producer who works predominantly in Tamil and ...

Date of birth: 6 January 1966

Age: 58

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Indian male film score composers 217T

Best Original Music BAFTA Award winners 45T

SuperHeavy members 5T
2.

Arshad Warsi

Indian actor

Overview: Arshad Warsi (born 19 April 1968) is an Indian film actor, producer,dancer,television personality and playback singer who appears in Bollywood films. He is the recipient of several awards including a ...

Date of birth: 19 April 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Maria Goretti (Married)

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Film producers from Mumbai 190T

Singers from Mumbai 120T

Indian male comedians 310T
3.

Tajuddin Muhammad Badruddin

Indian Sufi master

Overview: Syed Mohammad Baba Tajuddin also known as Tajuddin Baba (January 27, 1861 – August 17, 1925) is an Indian Sufi Master whose followers considered the last Mujaddid and Qutb. His shrine is in Nagpur, India ...

Date of birth: 27 January 1861

Date of death: 17 August 1925

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Female

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Husaynids 14T

19th-century Indian scholars 40T

19th-century Indian Muslims 14T
4.

Salim Merchant

Indian, Musician

Overview: Salim–Sulaiman is an Indian score composer duo consisting of siblings Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant. The duo compose music predominantly for Hindi films.

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21st-century Indian male singers 192T

Indian male film score composers 214T

21st-century male singers 7,269T
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Sachal Sarmast

Pakistani sufi mystic

Overview: Sachal Sarmast (1739–1827) (Sindhi: سچلُ سرمستُ‎, Urdu: سچل سرمست‎), born Abdul Wahab Farooqi (Urdu: عبد الوہاب فاروقی‎) was a Sindhi Sufi poet from Sindh in modern-day Pakistan.

Date of birth: 1736

Date of death: 1839

Age: 102 (age at death)

Nationality: Pakistani

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Articles containing Sindhi-language text 151T

Articles containing Urdu-language text 1,941T

Sufism in Sindh 15T
6.

Malik Muhammad Jayasi

Indian poet

Overview: Malik Muhammad Jayasi (1477– 1542) was an Indian Sufi poet and pir. He wrote in the Awadhi language, and in the Persian Nastaʿlīq script. His best known work is the epic poem Padmavat (1540).

Date of birth: 1477

Date of death: 1542

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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16th-century Indian poets 31T

Poets from Uttar Pradesh 154T

Indian male poets 973T
7.

Noor Inayat Khan

Allied covert radio operator

Overview: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British spy in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) ...

Date of birth: 1 January 1914

Date of death: 13 September 1944

Age: 30 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Agent

Gender: Female

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First Aid Nursing Yeomanry people 15T

Ināyati Sufis 13T

Novelists from Karnataka 51T
8.

Master Saleem

Singer

Overview: Master Saleem (as Saleem Shahzada), sometimes referred as Saleem Shahzada (Salim Shahzada), is an Indian singer from Punjab, known for his work as a devotional singer & playback singer in Bollywood films ...

Date of birth: 13 July 1980

Age: 44

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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21st-century male singers 6,386T

Singers from Punjab, India 61T

Indian male folk singers 52T
9.

Wadali Brothers

Sufi singers and musicians

Overview: The Wadali Brothers – Puranchand Wadali and Pyarelal Wadali – are Sufi singers and musicians from Guru Ki Wadali in the Amritsar District in Punjab, India. Pyarelal Wadali, the younger of the two died ...

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2018 deaths 9,212T

20th-century male singers 5,317T

21st-century male singers 6,386T
10.

Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari

Indian scholar

Overview: Maulana Haafiz Qari Alhaaj Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari (Arabic: مولانا عبداللہ قریشی) (born 19 September 1935 expired 8 December 2015, Hyderabad) was the Khateeb and Imam of the grand Mecca Masjid and ...

Date of birth: 19 September 1935

Age: 89

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Barelvis 56T

2015 deaths 9,624T

Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University alumni 38T
11.

A. R. Reihana

Indian playback singer and composer

Overview: Raihanah(also known as Rayhanah) is a playback singer and film composer for films in India. She is the sister of A. R. Rahman and mother of G. V. Prakash Kumar and Bhavani Sree. Her first song being Malle ...

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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Women musicians from Tamil Nadu 78T

21st-century Indian women singers 346T

Singers from Tamil Nadu 72T
12.

Hazrat Babajan

Indian Sufi

Overview: Hazrat Babajan (Balochi: حضرت باباجان) (c. 1806 - 21 September 1931) was a Pathan Muslim saint considered by her followers to be a sadguru or qutub. Born in Balochistan, Afghanistan, she lived the final ...

Date of death: 21 September 1931

Nationality: Pakistani

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Women mystics 93T

Pashtun Sufi saints 3T

Indian people of Pashtun descent 132T
13.

A. R. Ameen

Indian playback singer

Overview: A. R. Ameen (born 6 January 2003) is an Indian playback singer. He started his singing career in the film O Kadhal Kanmani which was composed by his father A.R.Rahman and has since sung in several Indian ...

Date of birth: 6 January 2003

Age: 21

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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21st-century Indian male singers 171T

21st-century male singers 7,270T

Singers from Chennai 96T
14.

Sayyid Muhammad Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal

Overview: Sayyid Muhammad Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal is the President of Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, the largest Muslim organisation in Kerala, India. He was selected as the President in January, 2017, following ...

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Kerala Sunni-Shafi'i scholars 18T

Leaders of Samastha (EK Faction) 12T

Indian scholars of Islam 30T
15.

Warsi Brothers

Indian Qawwali musical group

Overview: Warsi Brothers are an Indian Qawwali musical group, consisting of brothers Nazeer Ahmed Khan Warsi and Naseer Ahmed Khan Warsi (the Qawwāls), along with eight accompanists (the humnawa or party). They ...

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Musicians from Hyderabad, India 7T

Indian male folk singers 52T

Indian qawwali groups 3T
16.

Muhammad Suleman Taunsvi

Sufi saint

Overview: Muhammad Suleman Taunsvi (Peer Pathan) (1184A.H/1770CE - 1267A.H/1850CE) was a Sufi saint born to the Jafar Pakhtun tribe of Darug, Loralai District, Balochistan province, in what is now Pakistan. His ...

Date of birth: 1770

Date of death: 1850

Age: 79 (age at death)

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Pashtun Sufi saints 3T

Pashtun Sufis 9T

19th-century Islamic religious leaders 12T
17.

Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musalyar

Indian Sufi

Overview: Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar (Arab world known as: Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmad (شيخ ابوبكر أحمد)), Malayalam: കാന്തപുരം എ.പി. അബൂബക്കര്‍ മുസ്ലിയാര്‍ (born on 22 March 1939) is the leader and scholar ...

Date of birth: 22 March 1939

Age: 85

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Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar 1T

Leaders of Samastha (AP Faction) 5T

Leaders of Undivided Samastha 7T
18.

Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari

Sufi saint of Kaliyar, India (1196–1291)

Overview: Alauddin Ali Ahmed Kaliyari also known as Sabir Kaliyari (The Patient Saint of Kaliyar) was a prominent South Asian Sufi Saint of Chishti Order in 13th century, a successor to Baba Fareed (1188–1280) ...

Date of birth: 1196

Date of death: 1291

Age: 94 (age at death)

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Sufis from Multan 7T

Punjabi Sufis 17T

Chishtis 21T
19.

Khwaja Shamsuddin Azimi

Pakistani scholar

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Date of birth: 17 October 1927

Age: 96

Nationality: Pakistani

Occupation: Philosopher

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Sufi religious leaders 71T

Pakistani philosophers 73T

Muslim scholars 422T
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Syed Ahmad Barelvi

Muslim activist

Overview: Syed Ahmad Barelvi or Sayyid Ahmad Shahid (1786–1831) was an Indian Muslim revivalist from Raebareli, a part of the historical United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (now called Uttar Pradesh). The epithet ...

Date of birth: 1786

Date of death: 1831

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: Afghan

Occupation: Activist

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Maturidi 2T

Maturidis 114T

18th-century Muslim scholars of Islam 16T