Makhdoom

Makhdoom Ansari (مخدوم, meaning one who is served and sometimes spelled Makhdum, মখদুম) is an Arabic word meaning "Teacher of Sunnah." It is a title for Pirs, in South and Central Asia.

People with the title Makhdoom

 * Makhdoom Yahya Maneri (1263 - 1379 AD) – a mystic who lived in Bihar Sharif
 * Makhdoom Shah Daulat Maneri Sufi Saint, Descendant of Makhdoom Yahya Maneri
 * Makhdoom Jahaniyan Jahangasht (1308- 1384 AD) - a world-traveling Sufi Saint who was spiritual master of king Firoz Shah Tughlaq, Ashraf Jahangir Simnani and 80 makhdooms of his time.
 * Hamza Makhdoom – a mystic from Kashmir (d. 1563 AD)
 * Makhdoom Mian Mir – a Sufi mystic from Lahore who laid first foundation of the Golden Temple in Amritsar
 * Makhdoom Ali Mahimi – a Sufi saint from the Konkan in India
 * \Makhdoom Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani – a former Prime Minister of Pakistan
 * Makhdoom Muhammad Ameen Faheem – a former Pakistani politician and leader of PPP
 * Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat – a Pakistani politician affiliated with PML-Q and former Interior Minister of Pakistan
 * Makhdoom Muhammad Javed Hashmi – a Pakistani politician, and central leader of PML-N
 * Makhdoom Ali Khan – a former Attorney General of Pakistan
 * Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar – a Pakistani politician, former Minister for Industries & Production of Pakistan
 * Makhdoom Mohiuddin – an Urdu poet and Marxist politician from India
 * Sayed Makhdoom Raheen – an ambassador of Afghanistan to India and former Information Minister of Afghanistan
 * Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi – a Pakistani politician, former Foreign Minister of Pakistan
 * Makhdoom Muhammad Zaman Talib-ul-Mola – the founding member of Pakistan Peoples Party and famous Sindhi poet
 * Makhdoom Shahabuddin – a Pakistani politician
 * Ammar Aziz - a Pakistani filmmaker
 * Shah Makhdum Abdul Quddus Rupos - a Sufi saint from Shahzadpur in Bangladesh.
 * Syed Muhammad Idrees Makhdoom - a Anty Sufi saint from the Jacobabad in Pakistan.