Chishtī Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥasan Sijzī, known more commonly as
Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī or
Moinuddin Chishti, or by the epithet
Gharib Nawaz, or reverently as a
Shaykh Muʿīn al-Dīn or
Muʿīn al-Dīn or
Khwāja Muʿīn al-Dīn by Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, was a Persian Sunni Muslim preacher and Sayyid, ascetic, religious scholar, philosopher and mystic from Sistan, who eventually ended up settling in the Indian subcontinent in the early 13th-century, where he promulgated the famous Chishtiyya order of Sunni mysticism. This particular
tariqa (order) became the dominant Muslim spiritual group in medieval India and many of the most beloved and venerated Indian Sunni saints were Chishti in their affiliation, including Nizamuddin Awliya and Amir Khusrow.