Peerzada
| Place of origin |
Paktia, Afghanistan |
|---|---|
| Name origin and meaning | Persian for "Son of a saint" |
A Pirzada (Persian: پیرزاده ) is historically described as official custodians of Sufi mausoleums and shrines in Muslim lands, with their earliest mentions being in Baghdad, Iraq, during the period of the Umayyad caliphate. Often a Peerzada was a descendant of those buried within the tomb they were assigned to, hence most of the Peerzadas are syeds.
It also serves as surname for their ascendants in many Indo-Aryan cultures and their accompanying languages, with Peerzada translating into “the son of a saint” in Persian. Today, predominantly-Muslim families bearing the name can be found in various regions around the world, including Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the northern regions of India. Much of their lineage can be traced to the central Asian plateaus, consisting of the Soviet Union’s former republics, such as Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Much of the modern-day Peerzada diaspora derives from the mass migration of the community from Central Asia towards several different areas immediately at a date that is estimated to be sometime during the 15th century.
Peerzadas found within Pakistan are most likely to belong to either the Punjabi, Siraiki, Sindhi, Urdu Speaking ethnic groups, as these regions comprise Pakistan’s northernmost borders. The earliest recorded instance of the surname lays in a Mughal court official named Nur-ud-din Peerzada, who served at the Serai Nurmahal in the city of Nurmahal in Punjab, in 1693. By the time the Indian subcontinent was fully under control of the British Empire, Ehsan Peerzada ran a carpet-weaving guild in Amritsar that wove rugs for use by members of the British Royal Family, and Anglo aristocrats that resided in the British Raj, such as Sir John Lawrence, the first British governor of the Punjab province. At the time of partition of India in 1947, Peerzadas still resided primarily in the city of Amritsar, the bastion of Sikhism in the province of Punjab, with their eventual migration to the Pakistani portion of Punjab leading to their eventual spreading out over the province, albeit with a concentration of individuals in the city of Lahore. Family of MIAN ABDULLAH JAHANIA SOHARWARDI NEKOKARA is most notable family of pirzada tribe they migrated from madina to karbala and then to soharwarda IRAN there all remained for more than 2oo years than with SYED JALAL UD DIN BOUKHARI of UCH SHARIF they all migrated and settled in district VEHARI of Pakistan. Some of them later moved to United Kingdom. And some namely pirzada's are in Karachi known for their generosity and kindness they mostly live in hazratabad.
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