Abū l-Ḥasan Zayd Fārūqī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Gaborieau, Marc
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Abū l-Ḥasan Zayd Fārūqī Mujaddidī (1906-93) was a Ṣūfī guide, teacher and polemicist, head of the Naqshbandī-Mujaddidī hospice (khānqāh) at Chitli Qabar, in Old Delhi. (The Naqshbandiyya, whose eponymous founder was Bahāʾ al-Dīn Naqshband, d. 791/1389, is now widespread; its Mujaddidī current was initiated in India by Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī (d. 1034/1624-5), posthumously known as the "renovator" (mujaddid) of Islam in the second millenium.) Abū l-Ḥasan was a lineal descendant of Aḥmad Sirhindī. His lineage had charge from 1824 of the hospice