The Chishtī Order is a Sufi order within the mystic branches of Islam

Islam

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 which was founded in Chisht

Chisht

Chisht, also written Chisht-e Sharif, Chesht-i Sharif or Chesht is a town near Herat in Afghanistan. It is important in Sufism because the Chishti Sufi Order originated there....

, a small town near Herat

Herat

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, Afghanistan about 930 CE. The Chishti Order is known for its emphasis on love, tolerance, and openness. The doctrine of the Chishti Order is based on walāya, which is a fundamental notion of Islamic social, political and spiritual life. The Chishti’s were first exposed to this idea of walāya, from Sufi ideas, but developed two different categories of it: walāya of divine lordship (robūbīyat) and the walāya of divine love (moḥabbat

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The order was founded by Abu Ishaq Shami

Abu Ishaq Shami

Abu Ishaq Shami was a Muslim scholar who is often regarded as the founder of the Sufi Chishti Order because he was the person in the Chishti silsila who was the first to live in Chisht. The name Shami implies he came from Syria or even from Damascus...

 (“the Syrian”) who introduced the ideas of Sufism

Sufism

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 to the town of Chisht, some 95 miles east of Herat in present-day western Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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