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{{Short description|Muslim community in South Asia}}<br />
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| group = Abdal<br />
| population = <br />
| popplace = India • Pakistan • Nepal<br />
| langs = [[Urdu language|Urdu]] • [[Maithili language|Maithili]] • [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] • [[Bengali language|Bengali]]<br />
| rels = Islam<br />
| related = [[Jogi Faqir]] • [[Faqir (caste)|Faqir]] • [[Qalandar (caste)|Qalandar]] • [[Rawal (caste)|Rawal]] • [[Sai (caste)|Sai]] • [[Abdal people (West Asia)]]<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Abdal''' (Shekh Hashmi) are a Muslim community found in [[North India]]. They are a sub-group within the [[Faqir (clan)|Arabic old Shekh community]].<ref name="ReferenceA">Marginal Muslim Communities in India edited by M.K.A Siddiqui pages 344-356</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=K. S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jw9uAAAAMAAJ&q=abdal+of+uttar+pradesh |title=India's Communities |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-563354-2 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first1=N. K. |last1=Singh |first2=A. P. |last2=Mishra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8HT5OMWVssC&q=Mirasi&pg=PA563 |title=Global Encyclopaedic Enthnography Of Indian Muslim (3 vol. set) |date=August 2008 |publisher=Global Vision Publishing House |isbn=978-81-8220-297-9 |language=en}}</ref> They are classified as an [[Other Backward Caste]] in Bihar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Central List of OBCs for the State of Bihar |url=https://www.ncbc.nic.in/Writereaddata/cl/bihar.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427025323/https://www.ncbc.nic.in/Writereaddata/cl/bihar.pdf |archive-date=2025-04-27 |access-date=2025-08-03 |website=ncbc.nic.in}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Faqir (caste)|Faqir]]<br />
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