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Abdal is a rank of forty Sufi saints in Islamic metaphysics and mysticism.
Abdal may also refer to:
Places
- Abdal, Azerbaijan, a village in the Agdam District of Azerbaijan
- Abdal, Punjab, a village in Amritsar Dist. of Indian state of Punjab
- Abdal, Gurdaspur, Punjab, a village in Gurdaspur Dist. of Indian state of Punjab
- Abdal, Iran, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran
- Abdal, Nebraska, a ghost town in the United States
Other uses
- Abdal (caste), a Muslim community found in North India
- Abdals (ethnic group in West Asia), an ethnic group in Turkey, Syria, and the Balkans
- Qara Shemsi Abdal (1828–1886), a 19th-century Ottoman poet
- Äynu people of Xinjiang region, China
- Äynu language, the language of the Äynu
- Hephthalites were sometimes referred to as Abdals
See also
- Dervish, a Sufi ascetic
- Abdul, component of many names from Arabic
- Abdali (disambiguation)
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