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Ala Bakhsh

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Muhammad Ala Bakhsh

মুহম্মদ আলা বখশ
Personal
Born
Died
ReligionIslam
Flourished16th century
ChildrenElahi Bakhsh
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
TariqaNaqshbandi
RelationsAbdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali

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Shāh Muḥammad ʿAlāʼ Bakhsh (Bengali: শাহ মুহম্মদ আলা বখশ) was a 16th-century Bengali theologian, activist and Islamic scholar. He was the ancestor of Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali, a prominent Ṣūfī the 20th century.

Early life and family[edit]

Bakhsh was born in the 1500s in the disintegrating Sultanate of Bengal to a Bengali Muslim family of theologians from Sylhet. He was a descendant of Shāh Kamāl Yemenī (also known as Shah Pahlawān), a disciple of Shāh Jalāl who contributed in the Muslim conquest of Sylhet in 1303.[1][2] Shah Kamal Yemeni settled in the village of Moqamduar in Jalālpur, along with Shāh Muʿīn ad-Dīn and Shāh Jawhar ad-Dīn, where he was later buried in a mazar (mausoleum).[3]

Bakhsh migrated from Jalālpur with his family for spiritual reasons, eventually settling down in the village of Fultalī. He also had a son named Shāh Elāhī Bakhsh.[4]

Beliefs and views[edit]

In connection to his ancestors and descendants, Bakhsh is generally thought to be a member of the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī order. This is also backed up by Bakhsh being a follower of contemporary scholar Aḥmad Sirhindī of Punjāb.[4] Similarly, Bakhsh was a critic of the Din-i Ilahi established by Mughal emperor Akbar and took part in Sirhindī's opposition movement in the 1580s.[5]

Legacy[edit]

Bakhsh's descendants continued the family tradition of being notable regional transmitters of religious knowledge. His grandson, Shāh Muḥammad Ṣādiq, had a son named Shāh Muḥammad Dānish, who had a son named Shāh Muḥammad Hiron. Hiron was the father of Shāh Muftī Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Majīd an-Naqshbandī al-Mujaddidī who was bestowed the title of Choudhury. Hiron's grandson, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Chowdhury Fultalī, gained prominence as the founder of the Fultalī movement in Bangladesh, India and the United Kingdom.[5] Shaykh Fāṭir ʿAlī, another descendant of Bakhsh, established the Badedeorail Fultali Kamil Madrasa in 1920.[6]

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References[edit]

  1. Huda, Muhammad Shehabul (1985). The Saints And Shrines Of Chittagong (Thesis). Chittagong: University of Chittagong. p. 63. Shah Kamal Yamani
  2. Ali, Syed Murtaza (1971). Saints of East Pakistan. Oxford University Press, Pakistan Branch. p. 27. Search this book on
  3. Qurashi, Ishfaq (December 2012). "তিন'শ ষাট আউলিয়ার বিবরণ" [Description of the three hundred and sixty saints]. শাহজালাল(রঃ) এবং শাহদাউদ কুরায়শী(রঃ) [Shah Jalal and Shah Dawud Qurayshi] (in Bengali). Search this book on
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Family Background". Fultali. 2007. Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Ahmed, Abdul-Azim; Ali, Mansur (2019). In Search of Sylhet – The Fultoli Tradition in Britain (Thesis). Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, Cardiff: Cardiff University.
  6. Amin, Faysal (19 February 2020). "ফুলতলী কামিল মাদরাসার শতবর্ষ উদ্যাপন ২০ ফেব্রুয়ারী" [Centenary celebration of Fultali Kamil Madrasa on 20th February]. Daily Inqilab (in Bengali).


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