Khawaja
Khawaja or Khwaja (Arabic: خواجة khawājah, Persian: خواجه pronounced khâje, Hindi: ख़्वाजा khwājā) is a title used in Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia. It means Lord or Master.
Khwajagan is a word often used to refer to a chains of Central Asian Naqshbandi Sufi Masters from the 10th to the 16th century A.D. In Ferdowsi's Shahnameh the word is used many times for some Ancient Persian rulers and heroes.
Some authors, such as Idries Shah and John G. Bennett, maintain that George Gurdjieff's Fourth Way originated with the Khwajagan.
Name
Khawaja is also used as family name, they have an Arabic origin. They are a respected bloodline in both Islamic and Jewish cultures. A number of Khawaja families are now living in Iran, Afghanistan, all around Middle East, Pakistan and India in majority. They often bear the surname "Khwaja" or "Al-Khawaja".[1]
People using the name Khawaja
Significant figures with the name, or using the title Khawaja include:
- Dr. Khawaja Asad Aslam is a Pharmacist from Malakwal, Punjab, Pakistan. Working right now in CSH Pharma Group. Pakistan.
- Khawaja Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Ṭūsī, also known as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
- Hussain Al Khawaja director of Al Ahli club [1]
- Abdulhadi Alkhawaja former president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights
- Khawaja Shamsuddin Azeemi [2]
- Khwajah Pir Sufi Mohammed Aslam Sahib [3]
- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
- Khawaja Moinuddin Chishty, also known as Khwaja Gharib Nawaz was a Sunni Muslim and is the most famous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order of South Asia. He was born in 536 A.H./1141 CE, in Sajistan, a famous city in Khorasan province (other accounts say Isfahan) in Persia. He is also known as "Sultan-e-Hind." Descendants of Sufi saints also use this as a pronominal, He was born in a sayed family of Iran.
- Fariduddin Ganjshakar Khawaja Farid (Punjabi/Saraiki: خواجہ فرید)he was a great sufi his shrine is located in the city of Pakpattan, otherwise Pākpattan Sharīf.
- Khwaja Nizamuddin
- Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin, Pakistan’s second Governor General. Sir Khawaja resigned as Governor General to become the second Prime Minister of Pakistan, after Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated.
- Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (born 1173-died 1235) was a renowned Muslim Sufi mystic, saint and scholar of the Chishti Order from Delhi, India.
- Khwaja Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari was a prominent "Suhrawardiyya" Sufi saint and missionary. Bukhari was called Surkh-posh ("Red-clad") on account of the red mantle he often wore.
- Fareeha Khawaja Visual Artist and Photographer [4]
- Momin Khawaja (born April 14, 1979 in Ottawa) a software engineer; while working under contract to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2004 became the first person charged and found guilty under the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act following the proof that he communicated with British Islamists plotting a bomb attack.
- Usman Khawaja, Australian cricketer of Pakistani heritage.
- Jamal Khwaja (born August 12, 1926 in Delhi, India), an Indian philosopher.
- Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Abdul Ghani Mian KCSI (1813–1896), the first Nawab of Dhaka recognized by the British Raj.
- Khawaja Muhammad Asif (born 9 August 1949 in Sialkot), the current Pakistani Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources.
- Abdul Majeed Khwaja, barrister and graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge. The co-founder of Jamia Millia Islamia University following its relocation to New Delhi in 1925.
- Khwaja Alimullah was the first Nawab of Dhaka. He was the founder of the Dhaka Nawab Family.
- Khwaja Mir Dard
Prominent Central Asian Khwajagan
See also
References
- ^ Al Rehanad (book of Origins)