Baba Farid
Baba Farid | |
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Detail of Baba Farid from a Guler painting showing an imaginary meeting of Sufi saints | |
| Sheikh Farid Shakarganj | |
| Born | Farīd ad-Dīn Ganj-i-Shakar فریدالدین گنج شکر c. 4 April 1188 Kothewal, Multan, Punjab, Ghurid Sultanate (present-day Punjab, Pakistan) |
| Died | c. 16 Oct 1265 Pakpattan, Punjab, Delhi Sultanate (present-day Punjab, Pakistan) |
| Venerated in | South Asian Muslims, Sikhs & Punjabi Hindus |
| Major shrine | Shrine of Baba Farid, Pakpattan, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Influences | Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki |
| Influenced | Many, most prominent being Nizamuddin Auliya, Jamal-ud-Din Hansvi and Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari, Adam Sufi. |
| Baba Farid | |
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| Punjabi language | |
| Gurmukhi | ਫ਼ਰੀਦ-ਉਦ-ਦੀਨ ਮਸੂਦ ਗੰਜਸ਼ਕਰ |
| Transliteration | farīd-ud-dīn masūd gañjśakar |
| Shahmukhi | فرید الدین مسعود گنج شکر |
| Transliteration | farīd aldīn masʻūd ganj śakar |
| IPA | [fəɾiː.d̪ʊd̪ː.iːn mə́sᵊuːd̪ᵊ ɡənd͡ʒᵊ ʃəkːəɾᵊ] |
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Farīduddīn Masūd Ganjshakar (c. 4 April 1188 – 16 Oct 1265), commonly known as Bābā Farīd or Sheikh Farīd (also in Anglicised spelling Fareed, Fareed ud-Deen, Masood, etc.), was a 13th-century Punjabi Muslim mystic, poet and preacher. Revered by Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs alike, he remains one of the most revered Muslim mystics of South Asia during the Islamic Golden Age.