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Shahīdallāh Farīdī (1915–78), also known as John Gilbert Lennard, was an English convert to Islam who became an influential pīr (Pers., lit. “old,” used as a synonym of shaykh or murshid in northern India) of the Chishtī Ṣābirī ṭarīqa (lit. “way,” and hence “Ṣūfī order”; the Chi…