Multānī, ʿUbaydallāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Papas, Alexandre
Leiden
Brill
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ʿUbaydallāh Multānī (1804-88) was an influential Ṣūfī of the Chishtiyya order in South Panjāb (the Chishtiyya probably originated in Chisht, near Herat, towards the end of the sixth/twelfth century, and was introduced into India by Muʿīn al-Dīn Sijzī, d. 627/1230). He was born in Multān, in southwestern Panjāb, to a family of religious scholars and was the second son of a certain Muḥammad Qudratallāh, who taught him the basics of Islam (ʿĀdil, 1:42, 47; Fāridī, 226). According to his principal hagiographer Muḥammad ʿĀdil-a relative