Mir Mukhtar Akhyar (1653-1719)( ur, ) was a

Sufi Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...

scholar of the Noorbakshi orders of the Sufi in

Baltistan Baltistan ( ur, ; bft, སྦལ་ཏི་སྟཱན, script=Tibt), also known as Baltiyul or Little Tibet ( bft, སྦལ་ཏི་ཡུལ་།, script=Tibt), is a mountainous region in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilg ...

. He shaped the social complexion of the valley. Akhyar was the son of Abu Saeed Sauda (An early Muslim scholar of

baltistan Baltistan ( ur, ; bft, སྦལ་ཏི་སྟཱན, script=Tibt), also known as Baltiyul or Little Tibet ( bft, སྦལ་ཏི་ཡུལ་།, script=Tibt), is a mountainous region in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilg ...

and

kashmir Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...

.) He established 12

Khanqah A khanqah ( fa, خانقاه) or khangah ( fa, خانگاه; also transliterated as ''khankah'', ''khaneqa'', ''khanegah'' or ''khaneqah''; also Arabized ''hanegah'', ''hanikah'', ''hanekah'', ''khankan''), also known as a ribat (), is a buildin ...

around Baltistan. Akhyar translated the book ''Fiqh-i-Ahwat'' (the book of jurisprudence) also known as the ''Siraj-ul-Islam'' written in Arabic by his teacher Shah Syed Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani. His grave is located in Keris, Khaplu.Aks-e-Baltistan (Tareekh-e-Keris), Muhammad Nazir

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People from Gilgit-Baltistan 17th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Indian Sufi saints History of Baltistan People from Ghanche District 1653 births 1719 deaths {{islam-bio-stub