AḴBĀR AL-AḴYĀR, the most reliable taḏkera of early Indian Sufis, by Shaikh ʿAbd-al-Ḥaqq Moḥaddeṯ Dehlavī (d. 1052/1642). The book has…

ABŪ ESḤĀQ EBRĀHĪM B. ŠAHRĪĀR KĀZARŪNĪ, Sufi and eponymous founder of the Kāzarūnīya/Esḥāqīya selsela. Abū Esḥāq was born in 352/963…

ABŪ BAKR ṬŪSĪ ḤAYDARĪ, 7th/13th century Indo-Muslim saint. Nothing is known of his pre-Indian background, but reliable taḏkera writers describe…

ʿABD-AL-QĀDER JĪLĀNĪ, MOḤYĪ-AL-DĪN ABŪ MOḤAMMAD B. ABŪ ṢĀLEḤ JANGĪDŌST, noted Hanbalite preacher, Sufi shaikh and the eponymous founder of the…

ʿABD-AL-QODDŪS GANGŌHĪ, Indo-Muslim saint and litterateur, pivotal member in the Ṣāberīya Češtīya, a branch limited to present-day Uttar Pradesh and…

AḤMAD RODAWLAVĪ, ʿABD-AL-ḤAQQ (d. 837/1434), early Muslim saint of the Ṣāberīya Češtīya (a branch of the Češtī selsela only scantily…

BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN viii. Indology Bīrūnī’s fame as an Indologist rests primarily on two texts. One is a translation from…