Chishti Order

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The Chishti Order is a major Sufi Islamic spiritual lineage originating in Central Asia and South Asia, renowned for its emphasis on love, tolerance, and devotional music (qawwali) as paths to divine closeness.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic mystical lineage
Sufi order
associatedGenre qawwali
associatedPractice qawwali
associatedShrine Dargah of Baba Farid in Pakpattan
Dargah of Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer
linked to: Ajmer Sharif Dargah

Dargah of Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi
linked to: Nizamuddin Dargah

Dargah of Sabir Kaliyari in Kalyar
branch Chishti Nizami
Chishti Qadiri (later syncretic branch)
Chishti Sabiri
linked to: Chishti Order
coreTeaching hospitality
love of God
non-sectarianism
renunciation of worldly power
service to humanity
tolerance toward other faiths
earlyCenter Chisht
emphasis devotional music
love
tolerance
ethicalIdeal compassion for the poor
humility
poverty (faqr)
founder Abu Ishaq Shami
foundingCentury 10th century
historicalPeriodOfFlourishing Delhi Sultanate era
linked to: Delhi Sultanate

Mughal Empire era
IndianCenter Ajmer
linked to: Ajmer district

Delhi
Fatehpur Sikri
Kalyar
Pakpattan
influenced Indo-Persian devotional poetry
South Asian Islamic culture
institution khanqah
introducedToIndiaBy Moinuddin Chishti
keyFigure Alauddin Ali Ahmed Sabir
Amir Khusrau
Fariduddin Ganjshakar
Moinuddin Chishti
Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi
Nizamuddin Auliya
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
Sabir Kaliyari
languageOfLiterature Hindavi
Persian
Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
majorRegionOfInfluence Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Central Asia
Indian subcontinent
linked to: South Asia

North India
linked to: northern India

Pakistan
South Asia
namedAfter Chisht
Chisht, a town near Herat in present-day Afghanistan
originRegion Central Asia
South Asia
practice dhikr (remembrance of God)
khanqah-based communal life
sama (spiritual audition)
religion Islam
religiousTradition Sufism
spiritualGoal divine closeness
spiritualLineage from Abu Ishaq Shami to Moinuddin Chishti
venerationPractice ziyarat of saints’ shrines
viewOnPolitics distance from political power
preference for spiritual authority over temporal authority
welcomes followers from diverse social backgrounds

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Nizamuddin Dargah associatedSufiOrder Chishti Order
Nizamuddin Dargah affiliation Chishti Sufi order
linked to: Chishti Order
Salim Chishti religiousOrder Chishti Order
subject linked to: Sufi saint Salim Chishti
Salim Chishti spiritualLineage Chishti silsila
subject linked to: Sufi saint Salim Chishti
linked to: Chishti Order
Khuldabad associatedWith Chishti Sufi order
linked to: Chishti Order
Tomb of Salim Chishti associatedWith Chishti Order
Baba Farid sufiOrder Chishti Order
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi sufiOrder Chishti
linked to: Chishti Order
Deobandi Sunni Islam influencedBy Chishti Sufism
linked to: Chishti Order
Punjabi Muslims notableSufiOrder Chishti
linked to: Chishti Order
Ali ibn Uthman al-Hujwiri influenced Chishti order in South Asia
subject linked to: al-Hujwiri
linked to: Chishti Order
Islam in South Asia majorSufiOrder Chishti order
linked to: Chishti Order
Khawaja Ghulam Farid sufiOrder Chishti order
linked to: Chishti Order
Khawaja Ghulam Farid sufiOrder Chishti-Nizami branch
linked to: Chishti Order
Dakhni poets associatedWith Chishti order
linked to: Chishti Order
Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya memberOf Chishti Order
Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya sufiOrder Chishti Order
Chishti Order branch Chishti Sabiri
linked to: Chishti Order
Amir Khusrau affiliation Chishti Sufi order
linked to: Chishti Order
Silsila connectedTo Chishti order
subject linked to: silsila
linked to: Chishti Order
Sufi orders include Chishtiyya
linked to: Chishti Order