Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- South Asia
- Identifiers
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Sects and schoolsSpirituality and Sufism
Overview
The Chishti order is among the greatest Sufi orders of South Asia; traced to Chisht in Khurasan, it spread through India until it became among its most widespread orders 1.
In the sources
Academic study describes the Chishtiyya as the leading Indian Sufi order, extending through the sultanate and Mughal eras 1.
Connections
People and things also explored
The Deobandi movement· Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi· Shabbir Ahmad Usmani· Delhi· Ashraf Ali Thanwi· Mahmud Hasan Deobandi· Abdul Majid Daryabadi· Husain Ahmad Madani
Sources
- J. Spencer Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (Oxford 1998)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Chishti order (Chishtiyya)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/chishtiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.