Place · Chishti dargah · India
Pīrān Kaliyar Sharīf
Also known as Alauddin Ali Ahmed Sabir Kaliyari, Piran Kaliyar, Roorkee, Piran Kaliyar, Roorkee
The Chishti dargah of Sabir Pak (Alauddin Ali Ahmed Sabir, d. 1291) at Kaliyar Sharif on the Ganga canal 7 kilometres below Haridwar in Uttarakhand. Sabir Pak was Baba Farid's nephew and chief successor in one line of the Chishti transmission; his Kaliyar branch is called the Sabiri Chishti silsila alongside the Nizami silsila of Nizamuddin Auliya. The dargah's annual urs around 10 Rabi-ul-Awwal draws over 500,000 pilgrims. The Kaliyar node sits inside the Gangetic Hindu pilgrimage network — Haridwar, Rishikesh, Hemkunt Sahib — a Sufi shrine threaded onto a Hindu Char Dham axis.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Tradition
- Chishti-Sabri silsila
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 29.821, 77.785
Connections (2)
- Silsila lineagePākpattan (Ajodhan)
Sabir Piya of Kaliyar was Baba Farid's disciple and his sister's son, and the branch descending from him is the Chishti-Sabiri, distinct from the Nizami line that runs through Nizamuddin Auliya at Delhi. His shrine on the Ganga canal below Hardwar puts a Sufi node inside the Gangetic pilgrimage network, and the Kaliyar urs draws a heavily Hindu crowd — which is normal at several Chishti shrines and not at all at most mosques.
- Chishti SilsilaPākpattan (Ajodhan)
Sabir Piya of Kaliyar was Baba Farid's disciple and his sister's son, and the branch that descends from him is the Chishti-Sabiri, distinguished from the Nizami line that runs through Nizamuddin Auliya at Delhi. His shrine sits on the Ganga canal below Hardwar, which puts a Sufi node inside the Gangetic pilgrimage network — and the Kaliyar urs draws a heavily Hindu crowd, as several Chishti shrines do.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Kaliyar Sharif”. Chishti tazkira literature; Carl Ernst and Bruce Lawrence, Sufi Martyrs of Love (2002).
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