12 September – Urs of Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan (as) 2016CE, Munich, Germany

Pir-o-Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan

Pir-o-Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan passed on to the next life on 12 September 2016 in Munich, Germany. He was the leader of the International Sufi Movement founded by his father Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan.The following is taken from a page formerly on the International Sufi Movement (ISM) web page (all spellings left as is)

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17th Muharram Urs Ghulam Qutb al-Din, Lahore, Pakistan,1210CE

Mausoleum in Lahore, Pakistan

Qutb-ud-din Aibak (Arabic: قطب الدين أيبك‎, Persian: قطب الدین ایبک‎; lit. “Axis of the Faith”) was a Turkic king of Northwest India who ruled from his capital in Delhi where he built the Qutub Minar and the Quwwat Al Islam mosque. He was of Turkic descent from central Asia(modern day Aybak, Samangan, Afghanistan), the first Sultan of Delhi and founder of the Ghulam dynasty (Mamluk Sultanate) of India. He ruled for only four years. He died while playing polo in Lahore.

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17th Muharram Urs Shah Mohammed Afaq Delvi, Delhi

Shah Muhammad Afaq

Shah Mohammed Afaq Delvi was a Naqshabandi sheikh and his dargha is near Pul Bangash Metro Station On Roshan Aaraa Road Delhi.

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14th Muharram Urs Hazrat Khwaja Mumshad Dinawari, Dinawar, Iraq, 299AH/911CE

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Mumshad Dinwari, or Karimuddin Mun’im, was an early Sufi saint, a successor to Abu Hubairah Basri, seventh link in the Sufi silsilah of the Chishti Order, and the Master of Abu Ishaq Shami. There seem to be many versions of his name in English letters when transliterating from Urdu, Persian and Arabic. I have chosen Mumshad Dinawari as being the most correct as far as I can tell.

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1 September (CE Calendar) Urs of Gul Baba, Budapest Hungary, 1541CE

Dargha of Gul Baba Budapest, Hungary

From the museum website.

On the eastern slope of Rózsadomb the Tomb of Gül Baba reminds us of the time when the majority of Hungary was under Turkish reign. Suleiman I decided to invade the Castle of Buda on the spring of 1541 so it would not be seized by the Hungarian king.

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