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Details for Mu'in al-Din Chishti

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NameMu'in al-Din Chishti
TypepersName
Notesalso known as Shaykh Muʿīn al-Dīn, Khwājā Muʿīn al-Dīn;

born: 1 February 1143 in Herat, Ghaznavid Empire;

died: 15 March 1236 in Ajmer;

gender: male;

details:

was a Persian Sunni Muslim preacher, Sayyid, ascetic, religious scholar, philosopher, and mystic;

settled in the Indian subcontinent in the early 13th-century and promulgated the Chishtiyya order of Sunni mysticism;

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Surname
Name XML file Year reliable?
Khvaja Mu'in al-Din Chishti DNA_0003_0083 (n) 1839 (VS 1896) yes

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