entity_id,canonical_name,greek_name,tradition,entity_type,category,primary_domains,tags,cult_scope,primary_period,evidence_confidence,review_status,inclusion_basis,earth_association_score,chthonic_flag,serpent_flag,short_note,entity_class
ENT_ISL_ABDAL,Abdal,,Islamic/Sufi,Hidden saint collective,Holy Figure,hidden saints; substitution; protection; cosmic order,,Sufi/Islamic,,A,candidate_verified_name,Islamic esoteric saint collective,1,0,0,Hidden saintly figures in Sufi cosmology.,collective
ENT_ISL_QUTB,Qutb,,Islamic/Sufi,Hidden saint office,Holy Figure,pole; saintly hierarchy; cosmic mediation,,Sufi/Islamic,,A,candidate_verified_name,Islamic esoteric holy office,1,0,0,Pole or central saintly office in Sufi cosmology.,saint
ENT_ISL_RIJAL_GHAYB,Rijal al-Ghayb,,Islamic/Sufi,Hidden saint collective,Holy Figure,hidden men; invisible saints; spiritual governance,,Sufi/Islamic,,A,candidate_verified_name,Islamic esoteric saint collective,1,0,0,Hidden/invisible saintly men in esoteric Islamic traditions.,collective
ENT_SUF_ALAWI,Ahmad al-Alawi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Alawiyya order; Shadhili-Darqawi mysticism; Akbari metaphysics,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Algerian saint (d. 1934), founder of the Alawiyya, a Darqawi-Shadhili branch; subject of Martin Lings' study; influential on Western Sufism.",saint
ENT_SUF_ALAWIYYA,Alawiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Shadhili-Darqawi branch; Algerian/Mediterranean spread; Western reception,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Sufi order founded by Ahmad al-Alawi, a branch of the Darqawiyya; widely influential including on European converts.",collective
ENT_SUF_AMIR_KHUSROW,Amir Khusrow,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,Persian and Hindavi poetry; qawwali; devotion to the master,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Indo-Persian poet and musician (d. 1325), devoted disciple of Nizam al-Din Awliya and a father of the qawwali devotional song.",saint
ENT_SUF_BABA_FARID,Farid al-Din Ganj-i-Shakar,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi saint (wali),asceticism; Punjabi devotion; sainthood,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Punjabi Chishti saint (d. 1265), 'Baba Farid'; his verses are included in the Sikh Guru Granth Sahib. Shrine at Pakpattan.",saint
ENT_SUF_BADAWI,Ahmad al-Badawi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Egyptian popular sainthood; miracle-working; the Tanta mawlid,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Saint of Tanta (d. 1276), eponym of the Badawiyya and one of the most popular saints of Egypt.",saint
ENT_SUF_BADAWIYYA,Badawiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Egyptian popular Sufism; saint-veneration; the Tanta mawlid,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Egyptian Sufi order centred on the shrine of Ahmad al-Badawi at Tanta, host to one of the largest mawlid festivals in Islam.",collective
ENT_SUF_BAKHTIAR_KAKI,Qutb al-Din Bakhtiar Kaki,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi saint (wali),sainthood; sama; the Delhi Chishti line,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Chishti saint of Delhi (d. 1235), foremost disciple of Mu'in al-Din Chishti; his shrine at Mehrauli anchors the Delhi Chishti tradition.",saint
ENT_SUF_BAMBA,Ahmadou Bamba,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Mouridiyya order; Senegalese Sufism; sanctified labour,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Senegalese saint Cheikh Amadou Bamba (d. 1927), founder of the Mouridiyya; Qadiri-rooted; venerated at Touba.",saint
ENT_SUF_BAQA,Baqa,,Islamic/Sufi,Mystical process/category,Mystical process,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Abiding or subsistence in God that follows fana; in al-Junayd's teaching the annihilated self is restored, now subsisting through God rather than through itself.",sage
ENT_SUF_BAWA,Bawa Muhaiyaddeen,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi missionary,Tamil-Sri Lankan Sufism to America; Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Sri Lankan Tamil mystic (d. 1986) who founded the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia, transmitting a universalist Sufi teaching in the West.",saint
ENT_SUF_BEKTASH,Hajji Bektash Wali,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Anatolian sainthood; antinomian piety; veneration of Ali,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,Anatolian saint (d. 1271) revered as the founder-patron of the Bektashiyya and of Alevi devotion.,saint
ENT_SUF_BEKTASHI,Bektashiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Anatolian heterodoxy; Alevi devotion; veneration of Ali; antinomian piety,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Heterodox Anatolian Sufi order traced to Hajji Bektash Wali, later linked to the Janissaries and to Alevi communities.",collective
ENT_SUF_BHITTAI,Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,Sufism / Sindhi poetry,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Sindhi Sufi saint and poet (d.1752); his Shah Jo Risalo is the foundational classic of Sindhi mystical poetry, weaving local folk romances into allegories of the soul's longing for God. Venerated human saint with a major shrine at Bhit Shah.",saint
ENT_SUF_BISTAMI,Abu Yazid al-Bistami,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi saint,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Persian mystic (d. 874), foremost exponent of ""intoxicated"" (sukr) Sufism and of fana (annihilation of the self). Famed for ecstatic utterances (shatahat) such as ""Subhani!"" (""Glory be to Me!"").",saint
ENT_SUF_BULLEH_SHAH,Bulleh Shah,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,Sufism / Qadiri-Shattari & Punjabi poetry,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Punjabi Sufi saint-poet (d.1757), disciple of the Qadiri-Shattari shaykh Inayat Shah Qadiri; his Kafis are among the most beloved works of Punjabi mystical poetry, voicing ecstatic divine love and social critique. Venerated human saint.",saint
ENT_SUF_BURSEVI,Ismail Haqqi Bursevi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Akbari commentator,Sufism / Jelveti order & exegesis,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Ottoman Jelveti (Celveti) shaykh, Qur'an commentator, and Akbari-influenced mystic of Bursa (d.1725). His Ruh al-Bayan is a vast Sufi tafsir drawing heavily on Ibn Arabi and Rumi. Venerated human saint.",saint
ENT_SUF_CHISHTI,Chishtiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,sama (audition); service to the poor; love of God; South Asian Sufism,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Sufi order rooted in Chisht (Afghanistan) and established in India by Mu'in al-Din Chishti, central to the Islamization of the subcontinent.",collective
ENT_SUF_CHISHTI_MUIN,Mu'in al-Din Chishti,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,sainthood; service to the poor; conversion; Indian Sufism,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,Persian saint (d. 1236) who established the Chishtiyya in India; his shrine (dargah) at Ajmer is among the most venerated in South Asia. Titled Gharib Nawaz.,saint
ENT_SUF_DAN_FODIO,Uthman dan Fodio,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi reformer,Sufism / Qadiri reform (West Africa),,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Fulani Qadiri scholar, reformer, poet, and founder of the Sokoto Caliphate in present-day Nigeria (d.1817). His jihad of reform and prolific Qadiri-Sufi writings (incl. Ihya al-Sunna) reshaped West African Islam. Venerated human; reformer-saint, not deified.",saint
ENT_SUF_DARQAWI,Mawlay al-Arabi al-Darqawi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Sufism / Sufi tariqa,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Moroccan founder of the Darqawiyya, a revivalist branch of the Shadhili-Jazuli tradition (d.1823). His Letters (Rasa'il) are a classic of Sufi spiritual direction emphasizing poverty, sincerity, and ecstatic remembrance. Venerated human saint.",saint
ENT_SUF_DARQAWIYYA,Darqawiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Sufism / Sufi tariqa,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Moroccan revivalist branch of the Shadhili-Jazuli tradition founded by Mawlay al-Arabi al-Darqawi (d.1823), marked by ascetic poverty, ecstatic dhikr, and a renewal of the master-disciple bond; influential across North Africa and into the later Shadhili-Alawi line.",collective
ENT_SUF_DASUQI,Ibrahim al-Dasuqi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Egyptian sainthood; the four 'aqtab'; devotion,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Egyptian saint (d. 1296), eponym of the Dasuqiyya (Burhaniyya) and counted among the four great qutbs of Egyptian Sufism.",saint
ENT_SUF_DHIKR,Dhikr,,Islamic/Sufi,Ritual/devotional category,Ritual category,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"The remembrance and invocation of God (often through the divine names), the central Sufi spiritual practice for polishing the heart and realising the divine presence.",ritual
ENT_SUF_DHUL_NUN,Dhul-Nun al-Misri,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi saint,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,Egyptian mystic (d. 859) credited as the first to articulate the doctrine of marifa (experiential gnosis of God) and to map the mystical states (ahwal). A bridge between Egyptian Hellenistic wisdom and early Sufism.,saint
ENT_SUF_FANA,Fana,,Islamic/Sufi,Mystical process/category,Mystical process,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"The annihilation of the ego-self in God, the pivotal goal of the mystical path; expressed ecstatically by al-Bistami and given sober doctrinal shape by al-Junayd.",sage
ENT_SUF_GAZARGAHI_HARAZIM,Ali Harazim al-Barada,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi reformer,Sufism / Tijani transmission,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Foremost early disciple of Ahmad al-Tijani and compiler of the Jawahir al-Ma'ani, the foundational doctrinal compendium of the Tijaniyya (fl. early 19th c.). Venerated within the order as the principal transmitter of its master's teaching.",saint
ENT_SUF_GHAZALI,al-Ghazali,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi theologian,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111), ""Proof of Islam"" (Hujjat al-Islam); his Ihya Ulum al-Din reconciled Sufi interior practice with Sunni law and theology, making Sufism respectable within the mainstream.",sage
ENT_SUF_HAFIZ,Hafiz of Shiraz,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,Persian ghazal; mystical love and wine; divine beauty,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Persian lyric poet (d. 1390), 'Lisan al-Ghayb', whose ghazals fuse the imagery of love and wine with mystical longing; venerated and used for bibliomancy (fal).",saint
ENT_SUF_HAFIZ_TIJANI,Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Tijani,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Modern Sufi reformer,Egyptian Tijani revival; hadith scholarship; tariqa renewal,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Egyptian Tijani shaykh (d. 1978) who revitalised the Tijaniyya in Egypt and emphasised its hadith and scholarly credentials.,saint
ENT_SUF_HALLAJ,al-Hallaj,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi martyr,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj (d. 922), Persian mystic executed in Baghdad; his ecstatic cry ""Ana al-Haqq"" (""I am the Truth/the Real"") became the paradigmatic utterance of mystical union and the archetype of the martyr of divine love.",saint
ENT_SUF_HAMADANI,Sayyid Ali Hamadani,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi saint (wali),missionary sainthood; Kubrawi path; Kashmiri Sufism,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,Persian Kubrawi saint (d. 1385) credited with spreading Islam and Persianate culture in Kashmir; 'Shah-i Hamadan'.,saint
ENT_SUF_HAMALLAH,Shaykh Hamallah,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Hamalliyya (Tijani offshoot); West African reform; eleven-bead litany,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Malian Tijani saint (Ahmad Hamahullah, d. 1943), eponym of the Hamalliyya, a reformist Tijani branch repressed under French colonial rule.",saint
ENT_SUF_HAQQANI,Naqshbandi-Haqqani,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Global Naqshbandi-Khalidi branch; transnational Sufism,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Transnational Naqshbandi-Khalidi suborder led by Nazim al-Haqqani; a major vehicle of Naqshbandi Sufism in the modern West.,collective
ENT_SUF_HASAN_BASRI,Hasan al-Basri,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi ascetic/saint,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_EARLY,A,reviewed,,,,,"Basran preacher and ascetic (d. 728), foundational figure of Islamic zuhd (asceticism); emphasised self-examination (muhasaba), fear of God (khawf), and constant remembrance. Most later Sufi silsilas (chains of transmission) are traced back through him.",saint
ENT_SUF_IBN_AL_HABIB,Muhammad ibn al-Habib,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Darqawi-Habibiyya; Moroccan Shadhili Sufism; Diwan of litanies,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Moroccan saint (d. 1972) of the Darqawi-Shadhili line, shaykh of the Habibiyya; his Diwan is widely recited; teacher of early Western converts.",saint
ENT_SUF_IBN_ARABI,Ibn al-Arabi,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi metaphysician,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (d. 1240), al-Shaykh al-Akbar (""the greatest master""); his Fusus al-Hikam and Futuhat al-Makkiyya systematise wahdat al-wujud (the unity of being) and the doctrine of the Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil).",sage
ENT_SUF_IBN_IDRIS,Ahmad ibn Idris,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Modern Sufi reformer,Sufi revival; tariqa Muhammadiyya; hadith-centred mysticism,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Moroccan reformer (d. 1837), fountainhead of the 19th-c. 'neo-Sufi' revival; teacher of al-Sanusi and the Idrisi family of orders.",saint
ENT_SUF_INAYAT_KHAN,Hazrat Inayat Khan,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi missionary,Chishti transmission to the West; universal Sufism; Sufi Order in the West,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Indian musician-mystic (d. 1927), Chishti-initiated, who founded the Sufi Order in the West and introduced Sufism to Europe and America in a universalist form.",saint
ENT_SUF_INSAN_KAMIL,Insan al-Kamil,,Islamic/Sufi,Mystical archetype/category,Theological category,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"The ""Perfect (or Complete) Human"": the microcosm who fully realises the divine names and serves as the isthmus between God and creation. The Islamic counterpart of the cosmic Anthropos and the Kabbalistic Adam Kadmon.",sage
ENT_SUF_IRAQI,Fakhr al-Din Iraqi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,mystical love-poetry; wahdat al-wujud; divine beauty,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Persian Sufi poet (d. 1289), disciple of Qunawi's circle, whose Lama'at expounds Ibn al-Arabi's doctrine through the imagery of love.",saint
ENT_SUF_ISHRAQ,Ishraq,,Islamic/Sufi,Mystical doctrine/category,Mystical knowledge/category,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Illumination: Suhrawardi's metaphysics in which reality is graded light emanating from the Light of Lights, and knowledge is direct illuminative presence rather than discursive proof.",sage
ENT_SUF_JAMI,Abd al-Rahman Jami,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,Persian poetry; Naqshbandi devotion; hagiography; wahdat al-wujud,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Persian poet and Naqshbandi mystic (d. 1492), last of the great classical Persian poets; his Nafahat al-Uns is a major saints' hagiography.",saint
ENT_SUF_JAZAIRI,Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Akbari commentator,Sufism / Qadiri-Akbari & resistance,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Algerian Qadiri amir, scholar, and Akbari Sufi (d.1883; formed in the early-modern Qadiri milieu, leader of the Algerian resistance 1832–1847). In Damascus he edited and championed Ibn Arabi's al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya and wrote the mystical Kitab al-Mawaqif. Venerated human saint and Akbari authority.",saint
ENT_SUF_JILANI,Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi saint/order founder,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (d. 1166), eponym of the Qadiriyya, the first great Sufi order (tariqa); venerated as Sultan al-Awliya, ""sultan of the saints"".",saint
ENT_SUF_JILI,Abd al-Karim al-Jili,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi saint (wali),metaphysics; the Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil); wahdat al-wujud,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,Yemeni-Iraqi mystic (d. c. 1424) whose al-Insan al-Kamil developed Ibn al-Arabi's doctrine of the Perfect Man.,saint
ENT_SUF_JUNAYD,al-Junayd al-Baghdadi,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi saint,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Master of the Baghdad school (d. 910), called Sayyid al-Taifa (""lord of the order""); founder of ""sober"" (sahw) Sufism. Taught that fana is completed by baqa (subsistence in God) and a return to lucid life in the world.",saint
ENT_SUF_KARIM_KHALWATI,Mustafa al-Bakri,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi reformer,Sufism / Khalwati revival,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Damascene-Egyptian Khalwati shaykh (d.1749), the great early-modern reviver of the Khalwatiyya whose disciples spread Khalwati sub-orders across Egypt and the Hijaz; a prolific author of litanies and travel works. Venerated human saint.",saint
ENT_SUF_KHALWATIYYA,Khalwatiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Sufism / Sufi tariqa,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Order named for the practice of khalwa (spiritual retreat); spread widely across the Ottoman empire and Egypt in the early-modern period, producing many revival sub-branches. A principal vehicle of Ottoman-era Sufi piety and the seven-fold dhikr of the divine names.",collective
ENT_SUF_KHWAJA_AHRAR,Khwaja Ubayd Allah Ahrar,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi saint (wali),sainthood; political influence; Naqshbandi consolidation,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,Naqshbandi master of Samarqand (d. 1490) who gave the order great political and economic weight under the Timurids.,saint
ENT_SUF_KIRMANI,Awhad al-Din Kirmani,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,contemplation of divine beauty; quatrains; the witness (shahid),,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,Persian Sufi master and poet (d. 1238) known for the contemplation of divine beauty in created forms (shahid-bazi) and for his ruba'iyat.,saint
ENT_SUF_KUBRA,Najm al-Din Kubra,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,visionary mysticism; spiritual psychology; sainthood,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Persian mystic (d. 1221), eponymous founder of the Kubrawiyya; martyred at the Mongol sack of Khwarazm. Author of works on the visionary lights of the soul.",saint
ENT_SUF_KUBRAWI,Kubrawiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,visionary mysticism; colours of the soul; Central Asian Sufism,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Central Asian Sufi order founded by Najm al-Din Kubra, noted for its visionary psychology of luminous colours.",collective
ENT_SUF_LAL_DED,Lal Ded,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,Kashmiri mystical verse; non-dual devotion; the rishi tradition,,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Kashmiri mystic poet (d. c. 1392), 'Lalla', whose vakhs voice a non-dual devotion bridging Shaiva and Sufi piety; revered by Hindus and Muslims alike.",saint
ENT_SUF_MAHABBA,Mahabba,,Islamic/Sufi,Mystical love/category,Mystical love,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Selfless mystical love of God, the animating principle of the Sufi path; given its first doctrinal voice by Rabia al-Adawiyya.",sage
ENT_SUF_MANERI,Sharaf al-Din Maneri,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi saint (wali),sainthood; spiritual letters; Firdausi-Suhrawardi path,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Indian Sufi master of Bihar (d. 1381) of the Firdausiyya (a Suhrawardi branch), famed for his Maktubat (Hundred Letters) of spiritual counsel.",saint
ENT_SUF_MARIFA,Marifa,,Islamic/Sufi,Mystical knowledge/category,Knowledge category,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Experiential, intuitive gnosis of God, distinct from discursive learning (ilm); systematised by Dhul-Nun al-Misri as the heart's direct knowing.",sage
ENT_SUF_MIR_DARD,Khwaja Mir Dard,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,Sufism / Naqshbandi & Urdu poetry,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,Delhi Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi shaykh and major early Urdu poet (d.1785); developed the 'Muhammadan path' (Tariqa Muhammadiyya Khalisa) within his father's reform line. Venerated human saint and mystic-poet.,saint
ENT_SUF_MOURIDIYYA,Mouridiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Senegalese Sufi order; Touba pilgrimage; work-as-worship ethic,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Major Senegalese Sufi order founded by Ahmadou Bamba; centred on the holy city of Touba.,collective
ENT_SUF_NABULSI,Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Akbari commentator,Sufism / Akbari metaphysics,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Damascene polymath, saint, and the foremost early-modern commentator on Ibn Arabi (the 'Akbari' school) (d.1731). Defended wahdat al-wujud, wrote on dream interpretation, sacred travel, and Hanafi law; affiliated with both the Qadiri and Naqshbandi lineages. Venerated human saint.",saint
ENT_SUF_NAQSHBAND,Baha al-Din Naqshband,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,silent dhikr; sober Sufism; the Khwajagan path,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Central Asian saint of Bukhara (d. 1389), eponym of the Naqshbandiyya, who emphasized silent remembrance and presence in the world.",saint
ENT_SUF_NAQSHBANDI,Naqshbandiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,silent dhikr; sober Sufism; sharia-bound spirituality; the Khwajagan lineage,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Major Sunni Sufi tariqa traced to Baha al-Din Naqshband, distinguished by silent dhikr (dhikr-i khafi) and tracing its silsila to Abu Bakr.",collective
ENT_SUF_NAQSHBANDI_KHALID,Khalid al-Baghdadi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi reformer,Sufism / Naqshbandi-Khalidi reform,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Kurdish Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi master (d.1827), founder of the Khalidi sub-branch that revitalized the Naqshbandi order across the late-Ottoman world (Anatolia, the Levant, Kurdistan); stressed rabita, silent dhikr, and Shari'a-centered renewal. Venerated human saint.",saint
ENT_SUF_NAQSHBANDI_MUJADDIDI,Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Sufism / Sufi tariqa,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Early-modern revivalist sub-branch of the Naqshbandiyya, named for Ahmad Sirhindi (the Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thani, 'Renewer of the Second Millennium'). Emphasized sober conformity to the Shari'a, silent dhikr, and rabita (bond to the shaykh); became the dominant Naqshbandi current across Mughal India, Central Asia, Ottoman lands, and beyond. Sub-branch of the existing ENT_SUF_NAQSHBANDI.",collective
ENT_SUF_NASAFI_DARA,Dara Shikoh,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Akbari commentator,Sufism / Qadiri & comparative mysticism,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Mughal prince and Qadiri Sufi (d.1659), disciple of Mulla Shah Badakhshi; pursued the unity of Sufi and Vedantic mysticism, translating the Upanishads (Sirr-i Akbar) and writing Majma al-Bahrayn ('The Mingling of the Two Oceans'). A figure of veneration in the Qadiri-syncretic stream; not deified.",saint
ENT_SUF_NAZIM_HAQQANI,Nazim al-Haqqani,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi missionary,Naqshbandi-Haqqani order; global Naqshbandi spread; Cyprus center,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Turkish-Cypriot Naqshbandi shaykh (d. 2014), head of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani order, which spread the Naqshbandi-Khalidi line worldwide including to the West.",saint
ENT_SUF_NIASSE,Ibrahim Niasse,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Modern Sufi reformer,Tijani revival (Fayda); West African mass Sufism; tarbiya,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Senegalese shaykh (d. 1975), leader of the Tijani Fayda ('flood') revival; mass spiritual-training movement across West Africa and Nigeria.",saint
ENT_SUF_NIMATULLAH,Shah Ni'matullah Wali,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Persian sainthood; mystical poetry; wahdat al-wujud,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Persian saint and poet (d. 1431), founder of the Ni'matullahi order; his shrine at Mahan is a major Iranian pilgrimage site.",saint
ENT_SUF_NIMATULLAHI,Ni'matullahiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Persian Sufism; wahdat al-wujud; poetry and devotion,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Persian Sufi order founded by Shah Ni'matullah Wali, the most widespread tariqa in Iran.",collective
ENT_SUF_NIYAZI_MISRI,Niyazi Misri,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,Sufism / Khalwati order & poetry,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,Ottoman Khalwati shaykh and celebrated Turkish Sufi poet (d.1694); founder of the Misriyya branch of the Khalwatiyya. Known for ecstatic divan poetry and a turbulent career of exiles for his outspoken mysticism. Venerated human saint.,saint
ENT_SUF_NIZAM_AWLIYA,Nizam al-Din Awliya,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi saint (wali),sainthood; love and tolerance; Delhi Sultanate Sufism,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Pre-eminent Chishti saint of Delhi (d. 1325), 'Mahbub-i Ilahi'; his dargah is a major South Asian pilgrimage centre.",saint
ENT_SUF_NURCU,Nurcu Movement,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Risale-i Nur readers' movement; modern Turkish faith renewal,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Faith-renewal movement of the readers of Said Nursi's Risale-i Nur; a modern Sufism-inflected community rather than a classical tariqa.,collective
ENT_SUF_NURI,Nur al-Din Nurani,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Kashmiri sainthood; the Rishi order; asceticism,,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Kashmiri saint (d. c. 1440), 'Nund Rishi', patron-founder of the Kashmiri Rishi order; venerated as Alamdar-i Kashmir.",saint
ENT_SUF_NURSI,Said Nursi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Modern Sufi reformer,Risale-i Nur; faith-renewal movement; Qur'anic exegesis,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Ottoman/Turkish scholar (d. 1960), author of the Risale-i Nur; founder-inspiration of the Nurcu faith-renewal movement; Naqshbandi-influenced.",saint
ENT_SUF_OZAK,Muzaffer Ozak,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi missionary,Jerrahi-Halveti order; Turkish Sufism to America,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Turkish shaykh (d. 1985) of the Halveti-Jerrahi order who established Jerrahi communities in North America and Europe.,saint
ENT_SUF_PIR_VILAYAT,Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi missionary,Western universal Sufism; Sufi Order International; meditation teaching,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Son and successor of Hazrat Inayat Khan (d. 2004); led the Sufi Order International, spreading Inayati universal Sufism in the West.",saint
ENT_SUF_QUNAWI,Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi saint (wali),metaphysics; wahdat al-wujud; theology of unveiling,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Persian-Anatolian metaphysician (d. 1274), stepson and chief successor of Ibn al-Arabi who systematized his teaching of the oneness of being.",saint
ENT_SUF_QUSHAYRI,al-Qushayri,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi master/author,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri (d. 1074), author of al-Risala al-Qushayriyya, the classic manual that organised the stations (maqamat) and states (ahwal) and defended Sufism as orthodox.",sage
ENT_SUF_RABIA,Rabia al-Adawiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi saint,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Basran woman mystic (d. 801) who gave doctrinal form to disinterested divine love (mahabba): loving God for the sake of God alone, neither from fear of Hell nor hope of Paradise. The first great voice of love-mysticism in Islam.",saint
ENT_SUF_RUMI,Rumi,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi poet,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_MEDIEVAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), author of the Masnavi; the supreme Persian poet of love-mysticism, whose circle gave rise to the Mevlevi order of whirling dervishes and the practice of sama.",sage
ENT_SUF_SAFI_ARDABILI,Safi al-Din Ardabili,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,sainthood; the Safavid order; Azerbaijani Sufism,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Persian saint of Ardabil (d. 1334), eponym of the Safaviyya order from which the Safavid dynasty later arose.",saint
ENT_SUF_SAMA,Sama,,Islamic/Sufi,Ritual/devotional category,Ritual category,,,,PER_ISL_MEDIEVAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Spiritual audition: listening to music and poetry (and, in the Mevlevi turning, sacred dance) as a means of inducing ecstasy and remembrance; a contested but widespread Sufi practice.",ritual
ENT_SUF_SANUSI,Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Sanusiyya order; Saharan reform Sufism; zawiya network,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Founder of the Sanusiyya (d. 1859); student of Ahmad ibn Idris; built a reformist lodge network across Libya/Sahara.,saint
ENT_SUF_SANUSIYYA,Sanusiyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Saharan reform tariqa; zawiya network; later Libyan state,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Reformist Sufi order founded by al-Sanusi, rooted in the teaching of Ahmad ibn Idris; politically dominant in Cyrenaica/Libya.",collective
ENT_SUF_SHABISTARI,Mahmud Shabistari,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,mystical metaphysics; wahdat al-wujud; symbolic exegesis,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,Persian Sufi poet (d. 1340) whose Gulshan-i Raz (Rose Garden of Mystery) is a classic verse summary of Ibn al-Arabi's metaphysics.,saint
ENT_SUF_SHAH_WALIULLAH,Shah Waliullah of Delhi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi reformer,Sufism / Islamic reform,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Delhi-based scholar, Naqshbandi-affiliated Sufi, and seminal reformer (d.1762). His Hujjat Allah al-Baligha sought to reconcile law, hadith, and Sufi metaphysics and to harmonize wahdat al-wujud with wahdat al-shuhud; a foundational influence on later South Asian Islamic thought. Venerated human; not deified.",saint
ENT_SUF_SHARANI,Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi reformer,Sufism / hagiography & law,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Egyptian Shadhili saint, jurist, and hagiographer (d.1565). His Tabaqat al-Kubra is a major early-modern compendium of saints' lives; he defended Sufism against legalist critics and harmonized the four Sunni schools. Founded an Egyptian Shadhili sub-line (Sha'rawiyya). Venerated human saint.",saint
ENT_SUF_SIRHINDI,Ahmad Sirhindi,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Sufi reformer,Sufism / Naqshbandi reform,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Indian Naqshbandi master (d.1624), titled Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thani ('Renewer of the Second Millennium'); founder-figure of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi branch. His Maktubat (Collected Letters) reformulated Sufi metaphysics, advancing wahdat al-shuhud (unity of witnessing) against an unqualified reading of Ibn Arabi's wahdat al-wujud, and pressed for strict Shari'a conformity. Venerated human saint; not deified.",saint
ENT_SUF_SUHRAWARDI,Suhrawardi,,Islamic/Sufi,Sufi philosopher,Holy figure,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"Shihab al-Din Yahya al-Suhrawardi (d. 1191), ""al-Maqtul"" (the executed), Shaykh al-Ishraq; founder of Illuminationist (Ishraqi) philosophy, fusing Avicennan metaphysics with a symbolism of light drawn partly from ancient Persia.",sage
ENT_SUF_SULTAN_BAHU,Sultan Bahu,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,Sufism / Qadiri order & Punjabi poetry,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,Punjabi Qadiri Sufi saint and poet (d.1691); founder of the Sarwari Qadiri sub-line. Famed for his Punjabi 'Abyat' couplets (each line ending 'Hu') and Persian treatises on the path. Venerated human saint.,saint
ENT_SUF_TARIQA,Tariqa,,Islamic/Sufi,Mystical path/category,Mystical path,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"The Sufi ""path"" of stations (maqamat) and states (ahwal) leading from the law (sharia) toward mystical realisation (haqiqa); later also the name for the institutional orders.",sage
ENT_SUF_TIJANI,Ahmad al-Tijani,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Tariqa founder,Sufism / Sufi tariqa,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Algerian-born founder of the Tijaniyya order (d.1815), one of the most widespread tariqas of West and North Africa. Claimed a direct waking-vision authorization from the Prophet and the rank of 'seal of the Muhammadan sainthood'. Venerated human saint.",saint
ENT_SUF_TIJANIYYA,Tijaniyya,,Islamic/Sufi,Collective,Sufi order,Sufism / Sufi tariqa,,devotional,,A,candidate_verified_name,Early-modern Abrahamic build (1500-1800) (v1.81.0),0,0,0,"Tariqa founded by Ahmad al-Tijani (d.1815) in North Africa, claiming a direct waking-vision investiture from the Prophet Muhammad (the order's distinctive 'seal of the saints' claim). One of the largest Sufi orders of West and North Africa, with its own litanies (the Wazifa and Salat al-Fatih).",collective
ENT_SUF_WAHDAT_WUJUD,Wahdat al-Wujud,,Islamic/Sufi,Mystical doctrine/category,Theological category,,,,PER_ISL_CLASSICAL,A,reviewed,,,,,"The ""unity of being"": the Akbarian doctrine that there is only one true Being, of which all things are self-disclosures (tajalliyat). The central metaphysical teaching associated with Ibn al-Arabi.",sage
ENT_SUF_YUNUS_EMRE,Yunus Emre,,Islamic/Sufi,Saint,Saint-poet,Turkish devotional poetry; divine love; folk mysticism,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,High/late-medieval depth build (v1.80.0),0,0,0,"Turkish saint-poet (d. 1321), father of Turkish-language Sufi poetry whose hymns of divine love remain central to Anatolian devotion.",saint