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TheSadaat Amroha (Urdu:سادات امروہہ) orAmrohi Sayyid orSayyid of Amroha (Urdu:امروہی سید) are a community ofSayyids, historically settled in the town ofAmroha, in the Indian state ofUttar Pradesh. Many members of the community migrated to Pakistan after thepartition of India in 1947 and settled inKarachi,Sindh, Bewal - Rawalpindi - through Syed Dewan Shah Abdul Baqi Guzri Bewali bin Syed Abdul Wahid Guzri (Amroha), some descendants of whom settled inAzad Kashmir, from which some now also reside in theUnited Kingdom.[1]
The town ofAmroha is home to one of the oldest Naqvi Sadat settlements in India. Naqvis in Amroha arrived fromWasit,Iraq and have resided in the town ofAmroha since A.D. 1190.[2][full citation needed]
The Amrohi Sayyids formed the military and service gentry of the region in theMughal empire.[3] When the Marathas invaded and plundered the region, the country of WesternUttar Pradesh was burnt with the exception of Amroha owing to a few thousand Amrohi Sayyid soldiers that drove out and conciliated with the Marathas.[4]
Syed Hussain Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat Naqvi (R.A) (Arabic:سید حسین شرف الدين شاه ولايت) was a prominent 13th-century sufi saint.[5]
Local legend says that the animals who live in hismazar (shrine), especiallyscorpions, never harm humans.[6]
The Sadaat Amroha are divided among those that remained in India and those that emigrated to Pakistan. The Anjuman Sadaat Amroha is the community's main organization.[7]
