Kabir

n. family name; (1440-1518) Indaian mystic and poet who was a Hindu religious reformer

Al-Kabir "the Great" is also one of the 99 names of God in Islam. For a complete disambiguation page, see Kabir (disambiguation) Kabīr (also Kabīra) (Hindi: कबीर, Gurmukhī: ਕਬੀਰ, ) (1440—1518) (born in 1398 according to some accounts[1][2]) was one of the poet sants of India. Born in or near Benares, there is a mystery about his family background. However, in early life he became a disciple of the celebrated Hindu ascetic, Râmânanda, who brought to Northern India the religious revival which Râmânuja, the great twelfth-century reformer of Hinduism had initiated in the South. A Bhakti saint, a contemporary of Guru Nanak Dev, who sang the ideals of seeing all of humanity as one, and also the path of natural oneness with God; some even believe him to be the preceptor of Guru Nanak. His Baani is registered in the holy book of Sikhs, Guru Granth Sahib. He was known to be a weaver and later became famed for scorning religious affiliation. His philosophies and ideas of loving devotion to God are expressed in metaphor and language from both the Hindu Vedanta and Bhakti streams using vernacular Hindi. Kabir is also considered one of the early northern India Sants. He was initiated by Ramananda. One source for modern adaptations of Kabir's poetry is Robert Bly's The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir.
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n. Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, major pathology institute in Israel; family name

n. grave, tomb, sepulcher, sepulchre

[Hindu] A religious leader of the 15th century in the Punjab (northwestern India). He is the hero of many popular parables and moral tales. There is a famous banyan tree near the city of Broach which is reputed to have sprung from the tooth-wig of Kabir.