Hazrat Shaikh Abdul Aziz Makki, also called Dada Hayat Mir Qalandhar, migrated to South India from Arabia some thirteen centuries ago and took up residence in a Cave in the thick forests of the hills of Chikmagalur, some 250 kilometres West of Bangalore.

Its origin appears to be a syncretization of reverence for an 11th-century Sufi, Dada Hayath (Abdul Azeez Macci); for the 17th-century Sufi Baba Budan, said to have brought coffee to India; and for Dattatreya, an incarnation of Shiva (or of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu).

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Hazrat Sheikh Abdul Azeez Mecci is the first Khalandar and he was known as Hazrat Dada Hayath Mir Khalandar in India. Dada Hayath came to this mountainous region with a few companions and selected a cave for his residence. This cave was believed to be the abode of Sri Dattatreya Swamy by the Hindus. He cleaned it and made it habitable.

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Dada Hayat Qalandar is a Qadri Sufi resting in Mangrulpir. Chilla of Dada Hayat Kalandar is located at Chikmagalur. According to primary sources, he travelled from Mecca and settled in Mangrulpir taluka of Washim district of Maharashtra till …

The mystic Sufis Dada Hayath and Baba Budan became interchangeable, and the Dattatreya tradition and Sufism bear a syncretic identity. Baba Budanagiri view. The heritage and legacy of Baba Budan to Chickmagalur and Indian coffee culture