Shah Nuri Bengali
Shāh Nūrī Bengālī ( bn, শাহ নূরী বাঙ্গালী, fa, ; died 1785), also known as Shāh Bahāʾ ad-Dīn, was an 18th-century Bengali Islamic scholar and author from Dhaka. He is best known for his magnum opus, ''Kibrīt-e-Aḥmar'', which was written in the Persian language. Early life and education Nuri was born into a Bengali Muslim family from the village of Babupura in Dhaka, the capital of Mughal Bengal. The 20th-century Bangladeshi historian Syed Muhammed Taifoor describes the family to have been "very old and learned citizens of Dhaka". Both his father, Shaykh Abdullah Mujaddidi and grandfather Mawlana Shaykh Ghulam Muhammad Mujaddidi, were '' saliks'' at the Khanqah of Babupura and taught the Islamic sciences at the Babupura madrasa. As his grandfather was a '' murid'' (disciple) of the Punjabi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi, they belonged to the Mujaddidiyah suborder of the Naqshbandi Sufi order. Other than his father, among his grandather's reno ...
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