The town of Kakori in Lucknow district is home to a number of Alavi and Abbasi families, and word Kakorvi Shaikh literally means the Shaikhs of the town of Kakori.
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In addition, the other major group Shaikh settled in Kakori are the Abbasis.
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According to a classical Urdu work, the Nafhatun Nasim, which is a record of scions of a 16th-century sage Mullah Abdul Karim Alavi and which was later published by Amir Ahmed Alavi in 1934, and is an historic account of the settlement of these Alavi Shaikhs in the town of Kakori.
Shaikh | Kakori | Punjabi Shaikh | Zaib Shaikh | Mubin Shaikh | Khawaja Shaikh |