# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bawa-muhaiyaddeen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:34:33.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bawa-muhaiyaddeen"
name: "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen"
slug: "bawa-muhaiyaddeen"
description: "Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, also known as Bawa, was a Tamil-speaking teacher and Sufi mystic from Sri Lanka who came to the United States in 1971, established a following, and founded the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia. He developed branches in the United States, Canada, Australia and the UK — adding to existing groups in Jaffna and Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is known for his teachings, discourses, songs, and artwork."
tagline: "Sri Lankan Sufi leader"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Bawa_Muhaiyaddeen.png"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1900"
deathDate: "1986-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.8
  momentum:             0.7636363636363634
  historical:           7.511810666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen"
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    title: "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen"
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    title: "بابا محیی‌الدین"
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    title: "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bawa_Muhaiyaddeen"
    title: "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen"
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    title: "باوا محی الدین"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump