Tirmizi (surname)

Tirmizi or Tirmidhi or Termezi (Persian: ترمذی‎) is a surname in Central Asia and South Asia. Their forefathers migrated in the 9th or 10th CE to what is now Pakistan (at that time ancient Persia) from Tirmiz, a town of modern-day Uzbekistan, hence the use of the surname of Tirmizi.

Tirmizi families settled in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. They are descended from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandson Husayn ibn Ali, son of Muhammad's daughter Fatimah .[1] However, scholarly opinion holds that they are instead Persian/Tajiks who adopted their supposed Sayyid origins later.[2][3]

Supposed origins

Tirmizis mostly follow Sunni Islam.

Present day

Tirmizis settled in Pakistan are mostly descendants of the supposed Sufi saint Ali Tirmizi (Tajik) aka Pir Baba. Pir Baba's grave and shrine is in Bacha Killay village in the mountainous Buner District of present Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[4][5]

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. Honseng, as; and Dani, AH 'Adaptations in Central Asian cultures following the advent of Islam', in Central Asian studies journal, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan, 16:8, 1987, pp 21-32
  3. Also see Col T Hutchinson, Saints and Dervishes of India Vol 2, Lahore 1911, p 103; who cites earlier historical accounts, which inform that the Tirmizis were actually a Tajik family who accompanied a Sufi Bukhari Sayyid to Uzbekistan as servants and settled there. Later, people started to consider them as Sayyids or they probably created the impression that they were Sayyids. This misunderstanding has continued to this day.
  4. "God and Drugs in Northern Pakistan - YTPak.com".
  5. "Pir Baba (Mazar Shreef) Buner Swat".
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