Shami Chakrabarti Shami Chakrabarti Sharmishta Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti, (born 16 June 1969), commonly known as Shami Chakrabarti, is a British Labour Party politician and member of the House of Lords. She is a barrister, and was the director of Liberty, an advocacy group which promotes civil liberties and human rights, from 2003 to 2016. Chakrabarti was born in the London Borough of Harrow, and studied Law at the London School of Economics. After graduating, she was called to the Bar and then worked as an in-house legal counsel for the Home Office. When she was the director of Liberty, she campaigned against
Abu Ishaq Shami Shami's teacher was Shaikh Ilw Dinwari, whose own teacher was Abu Hubairah Basri, a disciple of Huzaifah Al-Mar'ashi who was in turn a disciple of Ibrahim ibn Adham. The Chishtiyyah "silsila" continued through Abu Ishaq Shami's disciple Abu Ahmad Abdal. In south Asia Moinuddin Chishti was the founding father and most revered saint of the Chishti order. Some of Abu Ishaq Shami's sayings are: Abu Ishaq Shami Abu Ishaq Shami (died 940) was a Muslim scholar who is often regarded as the founder of the Sufi Chishti Order ( - "Čištī") ( - "Shishti"). He was the first in the