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Baba Farid
Sign in to saveAlso known as Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Bhagat Farid, Baba Sheikh Farid, Cheikh Farid, Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar
12th-century Punjabi Sunni Muslim preacher and mystic
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- Works
- 3
Top works
- Book of Baba Farid
- Kalam-e Baba Farid
- BABA FARID Sufi Master Poet's Poetic Sayings (Slokas) : (Large Print & Large Format Edition)
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Key facts
- Born
- Farīd ad-Dīn Ganj-i-Shakar, فریدالدین گنج شکر , c. 4 April 1188 , Kothewal, Multan , Punjab , Ghurid Sultanate , (present-day Punjab , Pakistan )
- Died
- c. 7 May 1266 (1266-05-07) (aged 78) , Pakpattan , Punjab , Delhi Sultanate , (present-day Punjab , Pakistan )
- Venerated in
- Sunni Islam , Sufism
- Major shrine
- Shrine of Baba Farid , Pakpattan , Punjab , Pakistan
- Influences
- Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
- Influenced
- Many, most prominent being Nizamuddin Auliya , Jamal-ud-Din Hansvi and Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari , Adam Sufi .
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Multan
- Place of death
- Pakpattan
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Punjabi
- Native language
- Punjabi
- Religion
- Islam
- Student of
- Mu'in al-Din Chishti
- Image
- Detail of Baba Farid from a Guler painting showing an imaginary meeting of Sufi saints.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1175-00-00
- date of death
- 1265-00-00
- Commons category
- Fariduddin Ganjshakar
- replaces
- Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
- writing language
- Punjabi
- entry in abbreviations table
- بف
- canonization status
- saint
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Farīduddīn Masūd Ganjshakar (c. 4 April 1188 – 7 May 1266), commonly known as Bābā Farīd or Sheikh Farīd (also in Anglicised spelling Fareed, Fareed ud-Deen, Masood, etc.), was a 12th-13th century Punjabi Muslim mystic, poet and preacher. Revered by Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs alike, he remains one of the most revered Muslim mystics of South Asia during the Islamic Golden Age.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Baba Farid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.