DISCIPLES
Khwaja Qutbuddin Baktiyar Kaki (d. 1235) and
Hamiduddin Nagori (d. 1276) were Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti’s celebrated Khalifa
or disciples who continued transmitting the teachings of their master through
their disciples, leading to the widespread proliferation of the Chistiyya order
in India.
Among Khwaja Qutbuddin Baktiyar’s prominent disciples was Fariduddin
Ganj-i-Shakar (d. 1265), whose dargah is at Pakpattan (Pakistan). And
Fariduddin’s most famous disciple was Nizamuddin Awliya (d. 1325) popularly
referred to as Mahboob-i-Ilahi (God’s beloved) whose dargah is located in South
Delhi.
From Delhi, the disciples branched out to establish dargahs in several regions
of South Asia, from Sindh in the west to Bengal in the east, and the Deccan in
the south. But from all the network of Chishti dargahs Ajmer dargah took on the
special distinction of being the ‘mother’ dargah of them all.