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Mu'in al-Din Chishti

معين الدين الجشتي

1236 CE · 633 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for Mu'in al-Din al-Jishti, the Sufi master who carried the Chishti path to India and whose shrine at Ajmer is still visited; he died in 1236 and his entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
sufi master
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
South Asia
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Life in time

112511501175120012251250127513001325 c. c. c. c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa

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Subject of
Khwaja Mere Khwaja

People and things also explored

Screen Awards· A. R. Rahman· Khwaja Mere Khwaja

Sources

  • Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012)
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Screen Awards

An annual Indian film-award ceremony launched by Screen magazine of the Indian Express Group in 1995, its winners chosen by industry insiders; it continued under Star India after Star acquired the magazine in 2015, until the ceremony of 8 December 2019. A. R. Rahman's 'Khwaja Mere Khwaja' was nominated there in 2009.