List of Sufi saints

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Sufi saints or Wali (Arabic: ولي‎‎, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. Sufi saints have emerged periodically to reshape the sacred in society.

Some notable early Sufis

Abdūl-Khāliq Ghujdawanī

AmirSaid-ul-Auliya Sayyid Ali Hamadani

Abdūl-Qādir Gilanī (1077–1166)

Abdul Razzaq Jilani

Abūl-Khāyr

Abul Hasan Hankari

Afaq Khoja

Ahmad Ghazālī

Ahmad al-Tijani (1737–1815)

Ahmed Yasavī

Ak Shāms ūd-Dīn

Al-Ajami

Al-Aydarus

Al-Badawi

Imam Al Fassi

Al-Ghazālī

Al-Hallaj

Ali Hujwiri (990-1077)

Ali Mahimi (1372–1431)

Al-Hashmi (1260–1349)

Ali Shah Pir Baba (1431-1502)

Ali-Shir Nava'i

Al-Khārāqānī

Al-Qāsim

Al-Qayṣarī

Al-Qunawī

Al-Qushayri

Al-Tirmidhī

Amīr Khusrow (1253–1325)

Amīr Kulal

Ansarī

Ardabilī

Ata Allah

Auliya (1238–1325)

Azan Pir (17th century)

Bābā Eliyās

Bābā Fakr ūd-Dīn (1169–1295)

Baba Shadi Shaheed (17th century)

Badr ūd-Dīn

Bāhā ūd-Dīn Naqshband

Balım Sultan

Bande Nawāz (1321–1422)

Bākuvī

Bāqī Billāh (1564–1605)

Bayazid-i Bastamī

Ben Issa

Bhita'ī (1689–1752)

Bibi Jamal Khatun (d. 1639)

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324)

Bursevî

Bulleh Shah (1680–1757)

Chirag-e-Delhi (1274–1356)

Dara Shikoh (1615–1659)

Daud Bandagi Kirmani (1513–1575)

Dawud al-Ta’i

Dehlawī

Shah Ghulam Ali

Shah Waliullah (1703–1762)

El-Desoukî

Erzurumī

Farid al-Din Attar

Farīd ūd-Dīn Ganjshakar (1188–1280)

Fuzûlî

Gharīb Nawāz (1141–1230)

Ghulam Farīd

Gül Baba

Hāfez-e Shīrāzī

Haji Huud (1025–1141)

Hajji Bayram

Hajji Bektash

Ibn Adham

Ibn ʿArabī

Ismail Hakki Bursevi

Haddad

Hamedānī

Abū Yāqub Yusūf

Ali (1314–1384)

Hansvī

Harabatī Baba

Harooni

Hujwirī

Iraqī (1213–1289)

Jabir ibn Hayyan

Ja'far al-Sadiq

Jahanara Begum Sahib (1614–1681)

Jahaniyan Jahangasht (1308–1384)

Jamī

Jan-e-Jānāān (1699–1781)

Jaunpurī

Jazoulī

Jilani Dehlvi (1024-1088)

Jilī

Junayd Baġdādī

Khâlid-i Baghdâdî

Kākī

Kaliyarī

Karkhī

Khan Jahan Ali (d. 1459)

Lal Shahbaz Qalander (1177–1274)

Magtymguly Pyragy

Maharvī (1730–1791)

Mahmud Hüdayī

Mir Ahmed Ibrahim Ash Shadhili

Mir Amjad Ibrahim Ash Shadhili

Mian Mir (1550–1635)

Mir Shams-ud-din

Mohammad Tartusi

Moinuddin Chishti

Mubarak Makhzoomi (1013-1119)

Muhammad Al-Makki

Muqaddam

Nāimī

Nājm ūd-Dīn Kubrā

Nasīmī

Nasir Khusraw

Nasreddin

Nathar Vali

Ni'matullāh Wali

Saint Nurī

Sirri Saqti

Omar Khayyám

Osman Fazli

Otman Baba

Pir Baba

Pir Sultan

Qahistanī

Qutb ūd-Dīn Haydār

Qutb ūd-Dīn Shīrāzī

Rabbānī (ca. 1564-1624)

Rabia Basri

Rāzī

Fakhr ad-Dīn

Najm al-Dīn

Rifa'ī

Rukn-e-Alam (1251–1335)

Rumi

Saadī

Sabakhī

Sahl al-Tustari

Salim Chishti (1478–1572)

Salman al-Farisī

Sanai

Sarı Saltuk

Sarmad (d. 1661)

Semnanī (1308–1405)

Shadhilī

Shah Badakhshi (1584–1661)

Shah Gardez (1026–1152)

Shah Jalal (1271–1347)

Shah Hussain (1538–1599)

Shah Paran (14th century)

Shāms-i Tabrizī

Sheikh Edebali

Syed Abdus Salam Ibrahim ash Shadhili

Sheikh Gālib

Shiblī

Suhrawardī

Abū Hāfs Umar

Abū'n-Najīb Abdūl-Qādir

Suhrawardī

Shahāb al-Dīn al-Maqtul

Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat (1255-1346)

Shaykh Syed Mir Mirak Andrabi ( 921A.H - 990 A.H)

Sultan Bahoo (1628–1691)

Sultan Walad

Surkh Bukharī (1192–1291)

Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari (1196–1291)

Taşlıcalı Yahyâ

Telli Baba

Yahya Efendi

Yahya Maneri (1263–1381)

Yemeni Tamimi

Abdul-Aziz

Abdul-Wahid

Yunus Emre

Zahed Gilanī

Baha-ud-din Zakariya (1170–1267)

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235)

Zarruq

Zū'l-Nūn al-Misrī

Ajan Fakir

Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī

References

List of Sufi saints Wikipedia

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