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'''Khaja''' ({{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq| خواجه شيخ}}}}) are prominent branch of ] in ]. | ||
| ==Name== | |||
| '''Khawaja''' is an honorific title used across the ], ], ] and ], particularly towards ] teachers. It is also used by ]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yUy7QpJp7MC&pg=PA23|title=Epilogue, Vol 4, Issue 5|publisher=Epilogue -Jammu Kashmir|pages=23–|id=GGKEY:JAACF25BJCD}}</ref><ref name="Pardesi1989">{{cite book|author=Shyam Lal Pardesi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j8O1AAAAIAAJ|title=Amudarya to Vitasta: A Bird's Eye-view of Relations Between Central-Asia and Kashmir|publisher=Sangarmaal Publications|year=1989|page=15|quote=It is most pertinent to mention here that the word ''Khwaja'' is used as mark of respect before the name of a Kashmiri Muslim shopkeeper or wholesale dealer.}}</ref> and the ]—particularly ] and ].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Husain|first=Ruquiya K.|date=2004|title=KHWAJA ISRAEL SARHAD: ARMENIAN MERCHANT AND DIPLOMAT|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/44144740|journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|volume=65|pages=258–266|issn=2249-1937}}</ref> The word comes from the Iranian word ''khwāja'' (]: {{wikt-lang|fa|خواجه}} ''khwāja''; ] ''khājah''; ] ''khoja''). The spellings ''hodja'' or ''hoca'' (]), ''খাজা (Khaaja)'' (]), ''hodža'' (]), ''hoxha'' (]), ''хоџа'' (]), ''χότζας'' (''chótzas'') (]), ''hogea'' (]), ''koja'' (]).<ref>S. Robson and S. Wibisono, 2002, ''Javanese English dictionary'' {{ISBN|0-7946-0000-X}}, sv ''koja''</ref> The name is also used in ] and ] to indicate a person with a foreign nationality or foreign heritage. | |||
| ==Marriage customs== | |||
| '''Khawaja''' people usually marry within their own social affiliation that is '''"Khawaja"'''. They marry regardless of status wealth or class discrimination. Depending on circumstances a group (clan) may be as small as few hundred families and as large as few thousand families. For example, in the ] clan's definition, their clan system is to be an entire group having very few sub-groups, whereas Khawajas are branched into a dozen or two sub-groups. For the Bhat clan (a Kashmiri clan) a group, by and large, usually shares an ancestral village in Kashmir as a reference point. | |||
| Marriage into a family other than Khawaja family and between first cousins was discouraged in the past. Marriages to men outside the social group, i.e. the Khawaja clan (e.g. marrying outside such as Muslim Punjabi families), is now welcomed and accepted by a few Khawaja families, although some community elders may still discourage it. | |||
| Although most of the departed Group of families who are out of the '''Family clan system''' (]) are not following the antique family traditions. | |||
| ==People using the name Khawaja== | |||
| Significant figures with the name, or using the title Khawaja in South Asia include: | |||
| *], also known as Khwaja Gharib Nawaz was a ] Muslim and is the most famous ] saint of the ] of South Asia. He was born in 536 A.H./1141 CE, in ], a famous city in ] province (other accounts say ]) in ]. He is also known as "Sultan-e-Hind." | |||
| *] Khawaja Farid (Punjabi/Saraiki: خواجہ فرید)he was a great Sufi his shrine is located in the city of Pakpattan, otherwise Pākpattan Sharīf. | |||
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| *] ](born 1173-died 1235) was a renowned Muslim Sufi mystic, saint and scholar of the Chishti Order from Delhi, India. | |||
| *] ] was a prominent "Suhrawardiyya" Sufi saint and missionary. Bukhari was called Surkh-posh ("Red-clad") on account of the red mantle he often wore. | |||
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| == Khatris == | |||
| When Khatri people from the western districts of the Punjab like ], ], ], ], ] accepted Islam called themselves ] and adopted ] as title. They are thus called ''Khawaja Sheikh''. Some of them have also adopted ] as title. In recent years traders from a small town of ], in the ], became prominent due to their contribution in the industries of ]. These traders are known as ] or '']s''. The famous trading family of ]s, Sahgal Khatris of ], are known simply as ''Punjabi Shaikh'' instead of ''Khawaja Shaikh''. They use Mian as title. In Punjabi language Khoja is a distorted form of Khawaja. | |||
| The first censuses of the Punjab were conducted by ] and ] in 1883 and 1892. According to their reports, the Khawajas of Bhera in Shahpur, ] were converted from Khatris, and those from ] were said to be converted from ]. At ] in ], Majority of the Khawajas are Khatris, while some are Arora. They reported the following sections (]s) of Khatris from Chiniot: | |||
| ''], ] ] (or Maghoon), ], Wihara, ], ], ]''. | |||
| The sections of Khawajas from Bhera were reported as follows: | |||
| ''], ], ], ], ], ], ].'' These are all ] sections. | |||
| The sections of Khawajas from Pindi Bhattian were reported as follows: | |||
| ''] and ].'' These are all ] sections. | |||
| In Raiwind district Lahore Shaikh families use their surnames which are actually Arora surnames, they have Arora ancestry. | |||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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