Ḥamīd al-Dīn Qāḍī Nāgawrī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Muhammad b. ʿAṭā Allāh Maḥmūd (d. 643/1246), popularly known as Shaykh Ḥamīd al-Dīn Qāḍī Nāgawrī , was a renowned Ṣūfī scholar of mediaeval India, who was affiliated with both the Suhrawardī and Chishtī silsila s (spiritual lineage or initiatic genealogy) (the Suhrawadiyya is traditionally said to have been founded by Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī (d. 632/1234) and spread quickly to the Middle East and as far as India and Indonesia; the Chishtiyya was founded in Chisht, a small town near Herat, about 318/930 by Abū Isḥāq