Tirmizi (surname)

Tirmizi or Tirmidhi or Termezi (Persian: ترمذی‎‎) is a surname in Central Asia and South Asia. It is used by people who claim to be Syeds mostly settled in northern-regions of Pakistan. They claim their forefathers migrated in the 9th or 10th CE to what is now Pakistan (at that time India) from Tirmiz, a town of modern-day Uzbekistan, hence the use of the surname of Tirmizi..

Tirmizi families settled in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India claim to be descendants from Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandson Husayn ibn Ali, son of Muhammad's daughter Fatimah and his son-in-law Ali (Ali ibn Abi Talib).[1] However, scholarly opinion holds that they are instead Persian/Tajiks who adopted their supposed Syed origins later on.

Supposed origins

Tirmizis mostly follow Sunni Islam. Scholars claim that during the days of persecution Taqiya was generally developed to protect Syeds who were usually in the minority, under Al-Ma'mun in the 9th century, while the politically dominant Sunnites rarely found it necessary to resort to dissimulation.[2]

Present day

Tirmizis settled in Pakistan are mostly descendants of the supposed Sufi saint Syed Ali Shah Tirmizi Pir Baba. Pir Baba's grave and shrine is in Bacha Killay village in the mountainous Buner District of present Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Ho, Engseng (7 November 2006). The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean. University of California Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-520-93869-4.
  2. ↑ Virani, Shafique N. (19 April 2007). The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation. Oxford University Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-19-804259-4.
  3. ↑ "God and Drugs in Northern Pakistan - YTPak.com".
  4. ↑ "Pir Baba (Mazar Shreef) Buner Swat".
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