entities: ENT_SUF_SIRHINDI

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use entity_class to filter by kind (19 controlled values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, etc.). category is free text (1,148 values) and is not a reliable filter. Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

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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_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

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