Amrohi Syed

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Amrohi Syed or Sadat-e-Amroha
Sayyid/Syed
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The Sadaat Amroha (Urdu: سادات امروہہ) or Amrohi Sayyid or Sayyid of Amroha (Urdu: امروہی سید) are a community of Sayyids, historically settled in the town of Amroha, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Many members of the community migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947 and settled in Karachi, Sindh, Bewal - Rawalpindi - through Syed Dewan Shah Abdul Baqi Guzri Bewali bin Syed Abdul Wahid Guzri (Amroha), some descendants of whom settled in Azad Kashmir, from which some now also reside in the United Kingdom.[1]

History

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The town of Amroha is home to one of the oldest Naqvi Sadat settlements in India. Naqvis in Amroha arrived from Wasit, Iraq and have resided in the town of Amroha since A.D. 1190.[2][full citation needed]

The Amrohi Sayyids formed the military and service gentry of the region in the Mughal empire.[3] When the Marathas invaded and plundered the region, the country of Western Uttar Pradesh was burnt with the exception of Amroha owing to a few thousand Amrohi Sayyid soldiers that drove out and conciliated with the Marathas.[4]

Syed Hussain Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat Naqvi

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Syed Hussain Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat Naqvi (R.A) (Arabic: سید حسین شرف الدين شاه ولايت) was a prominent 13th-century sufi saint.[5]

Local legend says that the animals who live in his mazar (shrine), especially scorpions, never harm humans.[6]

Present circumstances

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The Sadaat Amroha are divided among those that remained in India and those that emigrated to Pakistan. The Anjuman Sadaat Amroha is the community's main organization.[7]

See also

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References

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  2. ^ A Socio-Intellectual History of the Ithna ashari Shia in India by S A Rizvi
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