ਸੱਯਦ · ਕੁਰੈਸ਼ੀسید · قریشی
Islam & Sufi
- Where
- Wherever there are great shrines: Multan, Pakpattan, Uch, Jhang
- Traditionally
- Custodians of Sufi shrines, pirs, landholders
Families descended, or claiming descent, from the Prophet or from great Sufi saints became the hereditary custodians of the shrines, the sajjada nashins. The heirs of Baba Farid at Pakpattan and of Bahauddin Zakariya at Multan held land, followers and great influence.
In the twentieth century their followers' votes made the shrine families a power in Punjab politics, first for the Unionists and later in Pakistan.
