Mīr Sayyid Jalāl ad-Dīn an-Naqwī al-Bukhārī ( fa, ; 1308-1384), better known as Jahāniyān Jahāngasht ( fa, ), was a Sufi saint from

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Biography

Mir Sayyid Jalaluddin Bukhari was born into a Muslim family on 8th February 1308 AD (14 Shaban 707 AH). His father, Syed Ahmed Kabir, was the youngest son and chosen successor of Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh of Bukhara.Marat-e-Jalali (مرآت جلالی) by Syed Khalil Ahmed Bukhari Hassami, First Edition 1918, Allahabad, Second Edition 1999,

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. He was later given the title of ''Jahaniyan Jahangasht'' from which he gained prominence. He travelled to many countries, and visited

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36 times in his life. He married the daughter of his half-uncle Sadruddin Muhammad Ghawth.Hassami S. K. A. B. ''Marat-e-Jalali (Red Clothed man from Bukhara)'' First Edition 1918, Allahabad, Second Edition 1999,

. He visited

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, the first capital of the Bengal Sultanate, where he led the janazah of Alaul Haq Pandwi, the court scholar of Bengal. Some of his gifts to Bengal include a ''Jhanda'' which is preserved in the

dargah A dargah ( fa, درگاه ''dargâh'' or ''dargah'', Turkish: ''dergâh'', Hindustani: ''dargah'' दरगाह درگاہ, bn, দরগাহ ''dorgah'') is a shrine or tomb built over the grave of a revered religious figure, often ...

Jalaluddin Tabrizi Abū al-Qāsim Jalāl ad-Dīn Tabrīzī ( fa, ) was a celebrated Sufi saint of South Asia. He arrived in Bengal shortly after the start of its Muslim rule, where he propagated Islam to the local populace and spent the rest of his life. The Jalili ...

in Pandua and a '' Qadam Rasul'' at the Qadam Rasul Mosque in

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. The nearby Jhan Jhaniya Mosque of the 16th-century is said to be named in his honour too. Every year, during the

urs Urs (from ''‘Urs'') or ''Urus'' (literal meaning wedding), is the death anniversary of a Sufi saint, usually held at the saint's dargah (shrine or tomb). In most Sufi orders such as Naqshbandiyyah, Suhrawardiyya, Chishtiyya, Qadiriyya, etc ...

of Akhi Siraj Bengali, Jahangasht's ''jhanda'' is taken from Tabrizi's dargah to Akhi Siraj's mausoleum.

Legacy

Makhdum Jahaniyan Jahangasht shrine from inside

His descendants use the surname Naqvi

Bukhari Bukhari or Bokhari () means "from Bukhara (Uzbekistan)" in Persian, Arabic, Urdu and Hebrew, and may refer to: People * al-Bukhari (810–870), Islamic hadith scholar and author of the * Bukhari Daud (1959–2021), Indonesian academician and re ...

, and belong to the Suhrawardi Saadat. Some of them migrated to

Tando Jahania Tando Jahania ( Sindh-ٹنڈوجهانياں) is a small quarter in the city of Hyderabad, the second largest city of Sindh province in Pakistan. The quarter is inhabited predominantly by Shias, including many who claim descent from Jahaniyan Ja ...

in Sindh creating a sizeable community, whilst others migrated to many other places within the subcontinent.

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