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
Ajmer Sharif Dargah
surface form: Dargah of Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer

Nizamuddin Dargah
surface form: Dargah of Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi

Dargah of Sabir Kaliyari in Kalyar
branch Chishti Nizami
Chishti Qadiri (later syncretic branch)
Chishti Order self-linksurface differs
surface form: Chishti Sabiri
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
surface form: Delhi Sultanate era

Mughal Empire (in much of the territory)
surface form: Mughal Empire era
IndianCenter Ajmer district
surface form: Ajmer

Delhi
Fatehpur Sikri
Kalyar
Pakpattan
influenced Indo-Persian devotional poetry
South Asian Islamic culture
institution khanqah
introducedToIndiaBy Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
surface form: Moinuddin Chishti
keyFigure Alauddin Ali Ahmed Sabir
Amir Khusrau
Fariduddin Ganjshakar
Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
surface form: Moinuddin Chishti

Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi
Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya
surface form: Nizamuddin Auliya

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
Sabir Kaliyari
languageOfLiterature Hindavi
Persian
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
majorRegionOfInfluence Afghanistan
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
surface form: Bangladesh

Central Asia
South Asia
surface form: Indian subcontinent

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