Atlas
About this atlas
The atlas holds the chains of transmission from the Prophet as the standard references and the classical sources record them: the Sufi orders, the chains of Qurʾān recitation, the teachers of the schools of law and ḥadīth, and the lines of the Prophet's family, with the places they spread and the living houses and teachers who carry them today. Every link shows its sources; where they differ, both readings are shown, and we do not rule on any community's claims. Ibn ʿArabī's own life, teachers and readers are on their own page.
شاه كليم الله جهان آبادي
Shāh Kalīmullāh Jahānābādī
Died 1142/1729 · Delhi
Revived the Niẓāmī line with a new central organisation
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
No chain up to the Prophet is recorded for this person in the sources read.
How to read the marks
- Two sources: a solid rule. Two independent references give the same link.
- One source: a lighter rule, so labelled.
- The community's own account: a dotted rule. The order tells it; we have not yet read it against a reference source.
- A gap in the rule: the sources omit names between the two. The label says which.
- The sources differ: tap the ≠ to read each reading with its source.
- A ring: a spiritual link, without a meeting (uwaysī).
Who received from Shāh Kalīmullāh Jahānābādī
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Shāh Fakhr al-Dīn Dihlawīشاه فخر الدين دهلوي1784
the community's own accountin Chishtiyya (Chishti order)omits: intermediaries the data does not namesources differ
family descent · Shāh Kalīmullāh Jahānābādī to Shāh Fakhr al-Dīn Dihlawī · The community's own account
TDV: Fakhr al-Dīn was Kalīmullāh's son.
Nizami, K. A., 'Çiştiyye', TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 8 (1993), pp. 343-346Checked against
- Encyclopaedia Iranica, 'ČEŠTĪYA' (Gerhard Böwering), Vol. V, Fasc. 3, pp. 333-336, section History · differsIranica calls Shah Fakhr al-Dīn only an 'indirect successor' of Kalīm-Allāh, not a son or direct disciple.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Böwering (Iranica): Shah Fakhr al-Dīn (d. 1199/1784-85) was 'a significant indirect successor' of Shah Kalīm-Allāh Jahānābādī.Encyclopaedia Iranica, 'ČEŠTĪYA' (Gerhard Böwering)
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Shāh Kalīmullāh Jahānābādī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/shah-kalimullah (data of 31 October 2026).