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Moinuddin Chishti

1142 - 1236

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Mu'in al-Din Hasan Chishti Sijzi (Persian: معین الدین چشتی, romanized: Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī; 1 February 1143 – 15 March 1236), known reverentially as Khawaja Gharib Nawaz (Persian: خواجه غریب نواز, romanized: Khawāja Gharīb Nawāz), 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 Chishtiyya order of Sunni mysticism. This particular Tariqa (order) became the dominant Islamic spiritual order in medieval India. Most of the Indian Sunni saints are Chishti in their affiliation, including Nizamuddin Awliya (d. 1325) and Amir Khusrow (d. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Moinuddin Chishti is the 2,266th most popular politician (up from 2,577th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 21st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Afghan Politician.

Moinuddin Chishti is most famous for the shrine he built in Ajmer, India. The shrine has attracted many followers of Islam and has become a popular tourist destination.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Moinuddin Chishti ranks 2,266 out of 19,576. Before him are Michel Barnier, Óscar Arias, Danjong of Joseon, Dorgon, Robert Ritter von Greim, and Léon Bourgeois. After him are Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Isma'il ibn Ahmad, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Agathocles of Syracuse, Philip V of Macedon, and Hong Xiuquan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1142, Moinuddin Chishti ranks 2. Before him is Yue Fei. After him are Philip I, Count of Flanders, William the Lion, Al-Mustadi, Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, Godfrey III, Count of Louvain, and Frederick, Duke of Bohemia. Among people deceased in 1236, Moinuddin Chishti ranks 3. Before him are Saint Sava, and Suleyman Shah. After him are Iltutmish, John, Old Lord of Beirut, Rukn ud din Firuz, Yahya al-Mu'tasim, Qul Ghali, and Roger of Wendover.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Moinuddin Chishti ranks 28 out of 177. Before him are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837), Babrak Karmal (1929), Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949), Hafizullah Amin (1929), and Humayun (1508). After him are Abu Maʿshar (787), Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (1450), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Ibrahim ibn Adham (718), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), and Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Moinuddin Chishti ranks 22. Before him are Muhammad Shah (1702), Babrak Karmal (1929), Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949), Hafizullah Amin (1929), and Humayun (1508). After him are Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Khalil Sultan (1384), and Heracles of Macedon (-327).

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