The Kakori Shaikh are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
شيوخ shuyūkh), is a word or honorific term in the Arabic language that literally means "elder."
It is commonly used to designate an elder of a tribe, a revered wise man, or an Islamic scholar.
From the beginning of Muslim rule in South Asia in 713 AD, technocrats, bureaucrats, soldiers, traders, scientists, architects, teachers, theologians and Sufis flocked from the rest of the Muslim world, to the Islamic Sultanate in South Asia and settled permanently.
The patriarchs of all three houses were émigrés hailing from the Banu Hashim clan [cf Hashemites] of the Quraysh tribe of Hejaz (in present-day Saudi Arabia) [cf Banu Quraysh], who settled in Kakori since the early advent of Islam in the region, back in the 15th century.