Abu Ishaq Shami

{{Short description|Syrian Sufi and Chishti order founder (died 940)}}

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Abu Ishaq Shami ({{Nastaliq|ابو اسحاق شامی چشتی}}; died 940) was a Muslim scholar who is often regarded as the founder of the Sufi Chishti Order.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sMotCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA10| last = Jackson | first = Roy | title = Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam: Authority and the Islamic State | location = Abingdon, Oxfordshire | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-0-415-47411-5 | page = 10}} He was the first in the Chishti lineage (silsila) to live in Chisht{{cite book | last = Karamustafa | first = Ahmet T. | title = Sufism: The Formative Period | publisher = University of California Press | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-0-520-25268-4 | page = 60}} and to adopt the name "Chishti", so that, if the Chishti order itself dates back to him, it is one of the oldest recorded Sufi orders. His original name, Shami, implies he came from Syria (ash-Sham). He died in Damascus and lies buried on Mount Qasiyun, where Ibn Arabi was later buried.