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Which of the following Sufi saints of the Chishti order was famously known as 'Chirag-i-Dehli' (Lamp of Delhi)?
A. Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
B. Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya
C. Nasiruddin Mahmud✓ Correct Answer
D. Salim Chishti
💡 Solution & Explanation
Hazrat Nasiruddin Mahmud is historically venerated as Chirag-i-Delhi due to his ascetic lifestyle and spiritual prominence within the Chishti Sufi network in the capital. Other saints like Nizamuddin Auliya and Moinuddin Chishti held different epithets and regional spheres of influence. Sufi order saints are standard topics in medieval Indian history.
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