The Saints of Islam through out the World

Turkey and Central Asia

Konya, Turkey[

Main articles: Rumi and Konya

Contains the tomb of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the Persian Sufi poet commonly known as "Mevlâna" and who is the founder of the Sufi Mevlevi order (known for the Whirling Dervishes), is located in Konya where he spent the last fifty years of his life.

Turkestan (City), Kazakhstan

Main article: Turkestan (City)

Throughout most of the medieval and early-modern period this city was known as Yasi or Shavgar and after the 16th-17th centuries as Turkistan or Hazrat, both of which names derive from the title 'Hazrat-i Turkistan', which literally means "the Saint (or Blessed One) of Turkistan" and refers to Khoja Ahmad Yasavi, the Sufi Shaikh of Turkistan, who lived here during the 11th century CE and is buried in the town.
Because of his influence and in his memory the city became an important centre of spirituality and Islamic learning for the peoples of the Kazakh steppes. In the 1390s Timur (Tamerlane) erected a magnificent domed Mazar or tomb over his grave, which remains the most significant architectural monument in the Republic of Kazakhstan, pictured on the back of the banknotes of the national currency.

Africa

Mosque of Uqba, Tunisia

Main articles: Mosque of Uqba and Kairouan

Under the Aghlabids, the fame of the Mosque of Uqba and of the other holy sites at Kairouan helped the city to develop and repopulate little by little. The university, consisting of scholars who met in the mosque, was a centre of education both in Islamic thought and in the secular sciences. Its role can be compared to that of the University of Paris in the Middle Ages. With the decline of the city, the centre of intellectual thought moved to the University of Ez-Zitouna

Harar, Ethiopia

The old town of Harar is home to 110 mosques and many more shrines.

El-Mursi Abul Abbas Mosque, Egypt

Main article: El-Mursi Abul Abbas Mosque

This is a famous mosque in Alexandria, Egypt, which is dedicated to the Alexandrine Sufi saint el-Mursi Abul Abbas.

Touba, Senegal

Main article: Touba, Senegal

This is the holy city of Mouridism and the burial place of its founder, Shaikh Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke. Next to his tomb lies a large mosque, completed in 1963.

South Asia

Many Sufi Saints lived in South Asia, and most have shrines.

Ajmer, India

Main articles: Ajmer and Dargah

The main places of interest are the Dargāh, or tomb, of South Asia's most revered Muslim sufi saint Mu'īnuddīn Chishtī, known as Gharīb Nawāz, or 'Benefactor of the Poor'.

Pakpattan, Pakistan

Pakpattan is one of the ancient and smallest cities of Pakistan. It is the city that has the shrine of the well-known Sufi of his times, Baba Fareed.

Sylhet, Bangladesh

Sylhet is a historic town in northeastern Bangladesh, which hosts the mausoleum of Shah Jalal, a revered Sufi of Bengal and the eastern South Asian subcontinent.