List of Sufi saints

Sufi saints or Wali (ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. In the traditional Islamic view, a saint is portrayed as someone "marked by [special] divine favor ... [and] holiness", and who is specifically "chosen by God and endowed with exceptional gifts, such as the ability to work miracles."

A

 * Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili
 * Ali Hisam-ad-Din Naqshbandi
 * Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan (1934–2017, 12th Sheikh of Silsila Naqshbandia Owaisiah and writer of several books and 03 Tafaseer of the Holy Qur'an)
 * Abdallah ibn Alawi al-Haddad (1634–1720, buried in Hadhramaut, author on several books on Dhikr)
 * Abdullah Ansari
 * Abdullah Shah Ghazi (d. 720, buried in Karachi)
 * Abdul Khaliq Ghajadwani (d. 1179, buried in Bukhara, one of the Khwajagan of the Naqshbandi order)
 * Abdul Qadir Gilani (1077–1166, buried in Baghdad, founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order)
 * Abdul Razzaq Gilani (1134–1207, buried in Baghdad, son of Abdul Qadir Gilani, promoted the Qadiriyya order)
 * Abu Ishaq Shami (d. 940, buried on Mount Qasioun, founder of the Chishti Order)
 * Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (967–1049, buried in Miana, Turkmenistan, poet who innovated the use of love poetry to express mystic concepts)
 * Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi (1219–1287, buried in Anfoushi, one of the four master saints of Egypt)
 * Abul Hasan Hankari (1018–1093, buried in Baghdad, noted scholar and miracle worker)
 * Adam Khaki (14th century, buried in Badarpur, Assam, took part in the Conquest of Sylhet and preached at Badarpur)
 * Afaq Khoja (1626–1694, buried in Xinjiang, opposed the Chagatai Khanate's attempt to enforce Yassa law on Muslims)
 * Ahamed Muhyudheen Noorishah Jeelani (1915–1990, buried in Hyderabad, India, founder of the Nooriya sufi order)
 * Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856–1921, buried in the Bareilly Sharif Dargah, reformer in British India)
 * Ahmad Ghazali (1061 to 1123 or 1126, buried in Qazvin, younger brother of the more famous Al-Ghazali, reasoned that as God is absolute beauty, to adore any object of beauty is to participate in a divine act of love)
 * Ahmad al-Tijani (1737–1815, buried in Fez, Morocco), founder of the Tijaniyyah order)
 * Ahmadou Bamba (1853–1927, buried next to the Great Mosque of Touba, lead a pacifist struggle against the French colonial empire)
 * Ahmad Yasawi (1093–1166, buried in the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, poet, founder of Turkish Sufism)
 * Akshamsaddin (1389–1459, buried in Göynük, tutor and advisor to Mehmed the Conqueror)
 * Akhundzada Saif-ur-Rahman Mubarak (1925–2010, buried in Lahore, founder of the Saifia Sufi order)
 * Al-Busiri (1211–1294, buried in Alexandria, poet, author of the Qasida Burda)
 * Wasif Ali Wasif (1929-1993, buried in Lahore, was a teacher, writer, poet, and Sufi saint from Pakistan)
 * Habib al-Ajami (d. 738, buried in Basra)
 * Abu Bakr al-Aydarus (1447–1508, buried in Aden, the patron saint of Aden, credited with introducing Qadiri Sufism to Ethiopia and coffee to the Arab world)
 * Ahmad al-Badawi (1200–1276, buried in Ahmad Al-Badawi Mosque, most popular saint in Egypt)
 * Khwaja Ahrar (1404–1490 AD), played a significant role in establishing the Naqshbandi Order
 * Al-Ghazali (1058–1111, buried in Tus, Iran, considered a Mujaddid, author of The Revival of the Religious Sciences and The Incoherence of the Philosophers, influenced early modern European criticism of Aristotelian physics)
 * Al-Hallaj (858–922, ashes scattered in the Tigris, imprisoned and executed after requesting "O Muslims, save me from God" and declaring "I am the Truth")
 * Ali Hujwiri (1009–1072/77, buried in Lahore, Pakistan, author of Kashf ul Mahjoob, spread Sufism throughout the Indian Subcontinent)
 * Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441–1501, buried in Herat, author of Muhakamat al-Lughatayn and founder of Turkic literature)
 * Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani (963–1033, illiterate mystic who influenced Avicenna, Rumi, and Jami)
 * Al-Qushayri (986–1072, buried in Nishapur, author who distinguished four layers of Quranic interpretation and defended the historical lineage of Sufism)
 * Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari (1196–1291, buried near Haridwar, founder of the Sabiriya branch of the Chishti order)
 * Amir Khusrau (1253–1325, buried in the Nizamuddin Dargah, influential musician, considered the "father of Urdu literature")
 * Amir Kulal (1278–1370, buried near Bukhara, taught Timur and Baha' al-Din Naqshband)
 * Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221, buried in the Mausoleum of Attar of Nishapur, author of The Conference of the Birds and the hagiographic Tazkirat al-Awliya)
 * Aurangzeb (1618-1707), buried in Khuldabad, also known as Jinda Pir. Author of Fatwa e Alamgir.
 * Azan Faqir (17th century, buried in Sivasagar near the Brahmaputra River, reformer who stabilized Islam in the Assam region)
 * Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (1365-1424, expounded on the works of Ibn Arabi)
 * Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi
 * Abdul Aziz bin Hars bin Asad Yemeni Tamimi
 * Abu al-Najib Suhrawardi
 * Abu Bakr Shibli
 * Ahmad Zarruq
 * Arabati Baba Teḱe
 * Ata Hussain Fani Chishti (1816-1893, buried in Gaya (India)) was a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in South Asia.

B

 * Baba Fakruddin (1169–1295, buried in Penukonda)
 * Baba Kuhi of Shiraz (948-1037)
 * Baba Shadi Shaheed (17th century, first Chib Rajput to convert to Islam, married a daughter of Babur)
 * Sheikh Bedreddin (1359–1420, buried in Istanbul in 1961, revolted against Mehmed I)
 * Baha' al-Din Naqshband (1318–1389, buried in Bukhara, founder of the Naqshbandi order)
 * Balım Sultan (d. 1517/1519, buried in Nevşehir Province, co-founder of the Bektashi Order)
 * Bahauddin Zakariya (1170–1267, buried in the Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya, spread the Suhrawardiyya order through South Asia)
 * Bande Nawaz (1321–1422, buried in Gulbarga, spread the Chishti Order to southern India)
 * Khwaja Baqi Billah (1564–1605, buried in Delhi, spread the Naqshbandi order into India)
 * Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (d. 1986, founder of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia)
 * Bayazid Bastami (874/5-848/9, buried in Shrine of Bayazid Bostami, noted for his ideas on spiritual intoxication)
 * Bibi Jamal Khatun (d. 1639 or 1647, lived in Sehwan Sharif, sister of Mian Mir)
 * Bodla Bahar (1238-1298, buried in Sehwan Sharif, features in the miracle stories of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar)
 * Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324, buried in Panipat)
 * Bulleh Shah (1680–1757, buried in Kasur, regarded as "the father of Punjabi enlightenment")

D

 * Dara Shikoh (1615–1659, brother of Aurangzeb, author of Majma-ul-Bahrain)
 * Daud Bandagi Kirmani (1513–1575, buried in Shergarh, Punjab)
 * Dawūd al-Qayṣarī
 * Dawud Tai (d. circa 777-782)
 * Dhul-Nun al-Misri

F

 * Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi
 * Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1188–1280, buried in the Shrine of Baba Farid, Pakpattan, Pakistan and developed Punjabi literature through poetry)
 * Fazl Ahmad Khan (1857–1907), Indian Sufi teacher
 * Fuzuli (1494–1556), considered one of the greatest poets of Azerbaijani literature)
 * Imam Fassi

G

 * Ghulam Ali Dehlavi (1743–1824, buried in Delhi)
 * Ghulam Farid (1845–1901), buried in Mithankot, poet
 * Ghousi Shah (1893–1954, buried in Hyderabad)
 * Gül Baba (d. 1541, buried in Tomb of Gül Baba, esoteric author and patron saint of Budapest)

H

 * Hafez (1315-1390, buried in Tomb of Hafez, highly popular antinomian Persian poet whose works are regularly quoted and even used for divination)
 * Haji Huud (1025–1141, buried in Patan, Gujarat, helped spread Islam in India)
 * Haji Bayram Veli (1352–1430, buried in Ankara, founder of the Bayramiye order)
 * Haji Bektash Veli (1209–1271, buried in the Haji Bektash Veli Complex, revered by both Alevis and Bektashis)
 * Hasan al-Basri (642-728, buried in Az Zubayr, highly important figure in the development of Sunni Sufism)
 * Hazrat Babajan (d. 1931, buried in Pune, master to Meher Baba)
 * Hayreddin Tokadi
 * Yusuf Hamdani (1062-1141, buried in Merv)
 * Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (1314–1384, buried in Khatlon Region, spread the Kubrawiya order throughout Asia)
 * Hüsn ü Aşk
 * Usman Harooni
 * Ali Hujwiri

I

 * Iraqī (1213–1289)
 * Ibrahim Niass
 * Ibrahim ibn Adham
 * Ibn Arabi
 * Ibn Ata Allah
 * Imam Ali-ul-Haq (925-971, buried in Sialkot).
 * Ibrahim al-Dasuqi (1255–1296, buried in Desouk, founder of the Desouki order)
 * İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (1703–1780, buried in Tillo, astronomer and encyclopedist, first Muslim author to cover post-Copernican astronomy)
 * Ibrahim ibn Faïd (1396-1453)
 * Imadaddin Nasimi
 * Ismail Haqqi Bursevi (1653-1725, buried in Bursa, author noted for esoteric interpretations of the Quran)
 * Ismail Qureshi al Hashmi (1260–1349)

J

 * Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari (1192–1291)
 * Jamal-ud-Din Hansvi
 * Jabir ibn Hayyan
 * Ja'far al-Sadiq
 * Jahanara Begum Sahib (1614–1681)
 * Jahaniyan Jahangasht (1308–1384)
 * Jamī

K
• Kasim Baba, fifteenth century Bektashi holy man and missionary

• Khalid-i Baghdadi (1779–1827)

• Kabir (1398–1518)

M
• Muhibbullah Allahabadi

• Aisha Al-Manoubya

• Madurai Maqbara

• Merkez Efendi

• Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (1699–1781)

• Muhammad Jaunpuri

• Muhammad al-Jazuli

• Syed Abdul Rehman Jilani Dehlvi (1024-1088)

• Abdul Karim Jili

• Junayd of Baghdad

• Khâlid-i Baghdâdî

• Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki

• Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari

• Maruf Karkhi

• Khan Jahan Ali (d. 1459)

• Lal Shahbaz Qalander (1177–1274)

• Machiliwale Shah

• Magtymguly Pyragy

• Noor Muhammad Maharvi (1730–1791)

• Mahmoodullah Shah

• Mahmud Hudayi

• Madurai Maqbara

• Mir Amjad Ibrahim Ash Shadhili

• Meher Ali Shah

• Mian Mir (1550–1635)

• Mian Muhammad Bakhsh

• Sayyid Ali Hamadani

• Muhammad Suleman Taunsvi

• Mohammad Tartusi

• Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi (1013-1119)

• Muhammad Al-Makki

• Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandi

• Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri

• Muqaddam

• Muhammad Qadiri (1552-1654)

• Mustafa Devati

• Mustafa Gaibi

• Mushtaq Ali Shah (?-1792)

• Makhdoom Ali Mahimi (1372–1431)

• Mohammed al-Hadi ben Issa (1467–1526, buried in Meknes, founder of the Aissawa order)

• Moinuddin Chishti (1141–1230, buried in the Ajmer Sharif Dargah, spread the Chishti order throughout India)

• Muhammad ibn `Ali at-Tirmidhi

N
• Nadir Ali Shah

• Fazlallah Astarabadi

• Najm al-Din Razi

• Najmuddin Kubra

• Nazim Al-Haqqani

• Nasir Khusraw

• Nasreddin

• Nathar Vali

• Shah Niamatullah

• Shah Nimatullah Wali

• Nizamuddin Auliya

• Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi

• Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325)

O

 * Omar Khayyam
 * Osman Fazli
 * Otman Baba

P

 * Pir Baba (1431-1502)
 * Pir Sultan
 * Pir Yemeni
 * Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui (1936-2017)

Q

 * Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
 * Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar
 * Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
 * Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki(1173–1235)

R

 * Ahmad Sirhindi (a.k.a. Imam Rabbani; ca. 1564–1624)
 * Rabia Basri
 * Rahman Baba
 * Ahmed al-Rifa'i
 * Rukn-e-Alam (1251–1335)
 * Rumi

S
• Saadi Shirazi

• Farqad Sabakhi

• Sachal Sarmast (1739-1827)

• Shaban Veli

• Shah Maroof Khushabi

• Sidi Boushaki

• Sahl al-Tustari

• Salim Chishti (1478–1572)

• Salman the Persian

• Sanai

• Syed Ahmad Sultan (12th-century)

• Sarı Saltık

• Sarmad Kashani (d. 1661)

• Saint Nuri

• Ashraf Jahangir Semnani (1308–1405)

• Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1689-1752)

• Shah Badakhshi (1584–1661)

• Sayed Badiuddin

• Shah Gardez (1026–1152)

• Shah Hussain (1538–1599)

• Shah Jalal (1271–1347)

• Shah Jalal Dakhini (d. 1476)

• Shah Amanat (d. 1809)

• Shah Paran (14th century)

• Shamas Faqir

• Shams Tabrizi

• Molla Şemseddin Fenari

• Sheikh Edebali

• Shah Syed Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani

• Syed Ahmad Ullah Maizbhandari (1826-1906)

• Soch Kraal

• Sufi Barkat Ali

• Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar Suhrawardi

• Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi

• Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat (1255-1346)

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

• Somuncu Baba

• Sirri Saqti

• Sultan Bahu (1628–1691)

• Sultan Walad

• Shah Farid-ud-Din Baghdadi (c. 1551 AD – c. 1733 AD)

• Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi

• Safi-ad-din Ardabili

• Sünbül Efendi

T

 * Tajuddin Muhammad Badruddin
 * Telli Baba

U

 * Üftade
 * Uthman Sirâj-ud-Dîn Naqshbandi

W

 * Waris Shah
 * Waris Ali Shah

Y

 * Yahya bey Dukagjini
 * Yahya Efendi
 * Makhdoom Yahya Maneri (1263–1381)
 * Khwaja Yunus Ali
 * Yunus Emre
 * Youza Asouph

Z

 * Zahed Gilani