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Sayyid Mahmud Agha, the Glossary

Mir Sayyid Mahmud Agha, officially known as Sayyid ul Sadaat Mir Sayyid Mahmud Saheb Agha ibn Mir Hasan Gilani-Naqshbandi al-Hasani wal-Husseini (died 1882) was a Sufi saint of South Asia.^[1]

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Afghan people of Arab descent
Sufi religious leaders

Abdul Qadir Gilani

Abdul Qadir Gilani (عبد القادر الجيلاني, عبدالقادر گیلانی) was a Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi leader who was the eponym of the Qadiriyya, one of the oldest Sufi orders. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Abdul Qadir Gilani are Hashemite people.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Ahl al-Bayt

(lit) refers to the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Ahl al-Bayt are family of Muhammad.

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Ali

Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Ali are family of Muhammad and Hashemite people.

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Ali al-Akbar ibn Hasan

Sayyid Ali al-Akbar ibn al-Hasan (Sayyid ʿAlī al-Akbar ibn al-Ḥasan) was a Sunni Muslim saint, and according to some historians of genealogy the second son of Imam Hasan al-Askari, the eleventh Imam in Shia Islam. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and ali al-Akbar ibn Hasan are family of Muhammad.

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Ali al-Hujwiri

Abū ʾl-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAlī al-Ghaznawī al-Jullābī al-Hujwīrī (c. 1009-1072/77), known as ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī or al-Hujwīrī (also spelt Hajweri, Hajveri, or Hajvery) for short, or reverentially as Shaykh Sayyid ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī or as Dātā Ganj Bakhsh by Muslims of South Asia, was an 11th-century Sunni Muslim mystic, theologian, and preacher from Ghaznavid Empire, who became famous for composing the Kashf al-maḥjūb, which is considered the "earliest formal treatise" on Sufism in Persian. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and ali al-Hujwiri are Hashemite people, Sufi mystics and Sufi poets.

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Ali al-Sajjad

Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Sajjad (translit, 712), also known as Zayn al-Abidin (lit) was the great-grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the fourth imam in Shia Islam, succeeding his father, Husayn ibn Ali, his uncle, Hasan ibn Ali, and his grandfather, Ali ibn Abi Talib.

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Alids

The Alids are those who claim descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib (عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600–661 CE), the fourth Rashidun caliph and the first imam in Shia Islam. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Alids are family of Muhammad and Hashemite people.

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Badi' al-Din

Badīʿ al-Dīn, known as Shāh Madār, and by the title Qutb-ul-Madar 1315–1434), was a Syrian Sufi who migrated to India where he founded the Madariyya Sufi brotherhood. He is held in high esteem as a patron saint.

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Baha' al-Din Naqshband

Baha' al-Din Naqshband (بهاءالدین محمد نقشبند; 1318–1389) was the eponymous founder of what would become one of the largest Sufi Sunni orders, the Naqshbandi. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Baha' al-Din Naqshband are Naqshbandi order and Sufi religious leaders.

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Battle of Karbala

The Battle of Karbala (maʿraka Karbalāʾ) was fought on 10 October 680 (10 Muharram in the year 61 AH of the Islamic calendar) between the army of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at Karbala, Sawad (modern-day southern Iraq).

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Begampura

Begampura is a neighbourhood in the Lahore District in Punjab, Pakistan.

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Bukhara

Bukhara (Uzbek; بخارا) is the seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan by population, with 280,187 residents.

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Dhikr

(ذِكْر) is a form of Islamic worship in which phrases or prayers are repeatedly recited for the purpose of remembering God.

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Emirate of Afghanistan

The Emirate of Afghanistan, known as the Emirate of Kabul until 1855, was an emirate in Central Asia and South Asia that encompassed present-day Afghanistan and parts of present-day Pakistan (before 1893).

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Fatima

Fatima bint Muhammad (Fāṭima bint Muḥammad; 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fatima al-Zahra' (Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija.

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Greater Iran

Greater Iran or Greater Persia (ایران بزرگ), also called the Iranosphere or the Persosphere, is an expression that denotes a wide socio-cultural region comprising parts of West Asia, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia (specifically Xinjiang)—all of which have been affected, to some degree, by the Iranian peoples and the Iranian languages.

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Greater Khorasan

Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.

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Hasan al-Askari

Hasan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad (translit), better known as Hasan al-Askari (translit), was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Hazrat Ishaan

Hazrat Ishaan Mahmud bin Sharif bin Zia bin Muhammad bin Tajuddin bin Hussein bin Zahra binte Bahauddin Naqshband (1563 — 5 November 1642) was an influential Sunni saint from Bukhara, Uzbekistan and hereditary supreme leader of his ancestor Bahauddin Naqshband's Sufi Order, the Naqshbandiyya. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Hazrat Ishaan are family of Muhammad, Hashemite people, Naqshbandi order, Sufi mystics and Sufi religious leaders.

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Husayn ibn Ali

Imam Husayn ibn Ali (translit; 11 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a social, political and religious leader. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Husayn ibn Ali are family of Muhammad.

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Imamzadeh Hamzah, Tabriz

Imāmzādeh Hamzah (امامزاده سيد حمزه) is an Imamzadeh mosque complex in Tabrīz, Iran.

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Ja'far al-Sadiq

Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq (translit; –765 CE) was a Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian, and the sixth imam of the Twelver and Isma'ili branches of Shia Islam.

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Lahore

Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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Medina

Medina, officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah, is the capital of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.

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Mir (title)

Mir (مير) (which is derived from the Arabic title Emir 'elite, general, prince') is a Persian and Kurdish title with variable connotations.

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Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani

Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (میر سید علی همدانی; CE) was a Sufi Muslim saint of the Kubrawiya order, who played an important role in spread of Islam in Kashmir.

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Moinuddin Hadi Naqshband

Sayyid ul-Sadaat Sayyid Moinuddin Hadi Gilani-Naqshband al-Hasani wal-Husseini (died 5 May 1674), known as "Hazrat Naqshband Saheb", was a Sunni Muslim wali (saint) from Bukhara and direct descendant of Muhammad, through his father Hazrat Ishaan who was a seventh generation descendant of Bahauddin Naqshband.

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Mu'in al-Din Chishti

Mu'in al-Din Hasan Chishti Sijzi (February 1143March 1236), known reverentially as Khawaja Gharib Nawaz, was a Persian Islamic scholar and mystic from Sistan, who eventually ended up settling in the Indian subcontinent in the early 13th-century, where he promulgated the famous Chishtiyya order of Sunni mysticism. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Mu'in al-Din Chishti are Indian Sufi saints and Sufi poets.

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Muhammad

Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.

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Muhammad al-Baqir

Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (translit) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the fifth of the twelve Shia imams, succeeding his father, Ali al-Sajjad, and succeeded by his son, Ja'far al-Sadiq.

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Musa al-Kazim

Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kazim (translit) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the seventh imam in Twelver Shia Islam.

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Naqib al-ashraf

Naqib al-ashraf (plural: nuqaba or niqabat) was a governmental post in various Muslim empires denoting the head or supervisor of the descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Naqib al-ashraf are Hashemite people.

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Naqshbandi

The Naqshbandi order (translit) is a Sufi order of Sunni Islam named after Baha al-Din Naqshband. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Naqshbandi are Naqshbandi order.

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Nūr (Islam)

Nūr (النور) is a term in Islamic context referring to the "cold light of the night" or "heatless light" i.e. the light of the moon.

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Sayyid

Sayyid (سيد;; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: سادة; feminine: سيدة) is an honorific title of Hasanids and Husaynids Muslims, recognized as descendants of the Arab companion Ali through his sons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Sayyid are family of Muhammad and Hashemite people.

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Sayyid Alauddin Atar

Khwaja Sayyid Mir Alauddin ibn Muhammad Attar, was a Sufi Saint from Bukhara and Qutb of the Naqshbandi Sufi order. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Sayyid Alauddin Atar are Naqshbandi order.

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Sayyid Hasan ibn Azimullah

Mir Sayyid Hasan ibn Azimullah was an Emir of a group of Sunni Sayyids of Khorasan, following the Sayyid ul Sadatiyya heritage.

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Sayyid Mir Fazlullah Agha

Sayyid Mir Fazlullah bin Sayyid Mir Hasan Naqshbandi (born in Kabul) was a Sunni Saint and Mir and the highest Qadi (Qadi ul Qudhad) and Grand Mufti of the Emirate of Afghanistan. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Sayyid Mir Fazlullah Agha are people from Kabul.

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Sayyid Mir Jan

Ghous Sayyid Mir Jan Shah Saheb ibn Hasan Naqshbandi Ishaani (غوث السيد مير جان شاه صاحب بن حسن النقشبندي الإيشاني) was a Sunni saint from Kabul and contemporary supreme leader of the Naqshbandi Tariqa and Naqshbandi Ishaani Sub-Tariqa as the 7th hereditary successor of his ancestor Hazrat Ishaan. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Sayyid Mir Jan are Afghan people of Arab descent, family of Muhammad, Hashemite people, Naqshbandi order, people from Kabul, Sufi mystics and Sufi poets.

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Sufism

Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.

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Twelve Imams

The Twelve Imams (ٱلْأَئِمَّة ٱلْٱثْنَا عَشَر,; دوازده امام) are the spiritual and political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Twelver branch of Shia Islam, including that of the Alawite and Alevi. Sayyid Mahmud Agha and Twelve Imams are Hashemite people.

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Wali

A wali (walī; plural أَوْلِيَاء) is most commonly used by Muslims to indicate a saint, otherwise referred to by the more literal "friend of God".

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Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab

Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab (also known as Mausoleum Hazrat Khawaja Naqshbandh Sahib) is a Sunni Muslim shrine, or ziyarat, in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Mahmud_Agha

Sayyid Mahmud Agha, the Glossary

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Afghan people of Arab descent

Sufi religious leaders

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