Ahmad Sirhindi

Imām Rabbānī Ahmad Sirhindi
Born	26 June 1564 Sirhind, Punjab region, Mughal Empire
Died	10 December 1624 (aged 60)
Era	Mughal India
School	Islamic philosophy
Main interests	Implementation of Islamic Law, Islamic Statehood
Notable ideas	Evolution of Islamic philosophy, Application of Sharia

Imām Rabbānī Shaykh Ahmad al-Fārūqī al-Sirhindī (1564–1624) شیخ احمد الفاروقی السرہندی was an Indian Islamic scholar, a Hanafi jurist, and a prominent member of the Naqshbandī order. He has been described as the Mujaddid Alif saānī, meaning the "reviver of the second millennium", for his work in rejuvenating Islam and opposing the dissident opinions prevalent in the time of Mughal Emperor Akbar. While early South Asian scholarship credited him for contributing to conservative trends in Indian Islam, more recent works, notably by ter Haar, Friedman, and Buehler, have pointed to Sirhindi's significant contributions to Sufi epistemology and practices.

Most of the Naqshbandī suborders today, such as the Mujaddidī, Khālidī, Saifī, Tāhirī, Qasimiya and Haqqānī sub-orders, trace their spiritual lineage through Sirhindi.

Sirhindi's shrine, known as Rauza Sharif, is located in Sirhind, Punjab, India.

Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi was born on Friday 14 June 1564 in the village of Sirhind, into an ashraf family claiming descent from the caliph Umar, Ahmad as-Sirhindi, son of ash-Shaykh A'bdul Ahad s/o Zainu-l-A'bidin s/o A'bdul Hayy, s/o Habibullah, s/o Rafi'uddin, s/o Nasiruddin, s/o Sulayman, s/o Yusuf, s/o Ishaq, s/o A'bdullah, s/o Shu'ayb, s/o Ahmad, s/o Yusuf, s/o Shihabuddin, known as Farq Shah al-Qabidi, s/o Nasiruddin, s/o Mahmud, s/o Salman, s/o Mas'ud, s/o 'Abdullah al-Wa'iz al-Asgar, s/o 'Abdullah al-Wa'iz al-Akbar, s/o Abdul Fattah, s/o Ishaq, s/o Ibrahim, s/o Nasir, s/o Abdullah, s/o Umar.

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