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Ali Sher Bengali

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Shaykh

Ali Sher Bengali
আলী শের বাঙ্গালী
Other namesAli Sher Bangali
Personal
Born
Ali Sher

Srihatta, Bengal Sultanate
Died23 Safar
Resting placeKocharab, Paldi, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
ReligionIslam
Flourished16th century
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
Other namesAli Sher Bangali
RelativesNurul Huda Abul Karamat (ancestor)
OrderShattari
Senior posting
TeacherMuhammad Ghawth
Based inAhmedabad

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Shaykh 'Ali Shīr al-Ḥanafī al-Bangālī (Arabic: علي شير الحنفي البنغالي‎; d. 1570s), or simply Ali Sher Bengali (Bengali: আলী শের বাঙ্গালী), was a 16th-century Bengali author, teacher and Sufi pir of the Shattari order.[1][2] He was one of the three khalifahs (successors) of Muhammad Ghawth Shattari.[3]

Background[edit]

Sheikh Ali Sher was born into a Bengali Muslim family of Sheikhs in the town of Sylhet in the Bengal Sultanate. His family traced their origins to Sheikh Nurul Huda Abul Karamat, a 14th-century Middle Eastern migrant who accompanied Shah Jalal in the Conquest of Sylhet and was later appointed as the second Wazir of Arsah Srihat.[4][5] He was a Hanafi.[6]

Life[edit]

In his youth, Sher began travelling across the subcontinent for further Islamic studies. When he reached Awadh, it is said that he saw Muhammad Ghawth Shattari in a dream. Sher then travelled to Delhi where he met with Ghawth and became his murid (student).[7] He was one of the two prominent Bengali students of Shattari, the other being Shah Manjhan of Lakhnauti. Shaikh Yusuf Bengali was a student of Ali Sher's contemporary Wajihuddin Alvi.[8]

Ali Sher Bengali was ordered to visit Ahmedabad in Gujarat and settle down at the Imad-ul-Mulk Rumi Masjid to become a teacher himself as a khalifa of Shattari. Among his notable students was Abdullah ibn Mahmud al-Husayni al-Bukhari.[6] Ali Sher was a critic of the Sur emperors who were then ruling the region.[9]

In 1571, Ali Sher Bengali wrote a book called A commentary on the excursion of the souls (Arabic: شرح نزهة الأرواح‎, romanized: Sharḥ Nuzhat al-Arwāḥ),[10] which contained the earliest recorded written biography of Shah Jalal in its preface.[11] Among his other books are Sharḥ Jām-i Jahān Nāma and Sharḥ Sawāniḥ. The works were compiled under the instruction of Muhammad Ghawth Shattari.[6]

Spiritual genealogy[edit]

Spiritual genealogy of Ali Sher Bengali is as follows:[3]

Death[edit]

According to the guardians of his shrine, Ali Sher Bengali died on 23 Safar 970 AH (22 October 1562). He was buried near the Shahi Masjid in the neighbourhood of Paldi in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.[12] His urs is celebrated on 23 Safar by devotees every year.[13] However, Ali Sher Bengali wrote Sharh Nuzhat al-Arwah, which was in 977 AH (1571 CE) and according to Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi and the Gulzar-i-Abrar, he died a few years after 970 AH.[14]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Chattopadhyay, Bhaskar (1988). Culture of Bengal Through the Ages: Some Aspects. University of Burdwan. p. 211. Search this book on
  2. ↑ Ali, Syed Murtaza (1965). হজরত শাহ জালাল ও সিলেটের ইতিহাস [Hazrat Shah Jalal and the History of Sylhet] (in Bengali). Dhaka: University Press. pp. 17–22. Search this book on
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ghazi, Syed Abdullah Shah, Hazrat Shah Muhammad Ghous Gwalior, India
  4. ↑ "Hazrat Shah Jalal r.a". Aal-e-Qutub Aal-e-Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi. 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  5. ↑ Choudhury, Achyutcharan. "1". Sreehatter Itibritta – Purbangsho (A History of Sylhet), Part 2. 1. Mustafa Selim; Source publication, 2004. Search this book on
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 al-Lucknawi, Abd al-Hayy (1999). Nuzhat al-khawatir (in العربية). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Ibn Hazm. Search this book on
  7. ↑ Rizvi, Syed Muhammad Nir. صوفی یوگ گرو: شیخ محمد غوث گوالیاریؒ (in اردو). Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Search this book on
  8. ↑ Quddusi, Mohammad Ilyas (2002). Khandesh Under the Mughals, 1601-1724 A.D.: Mainly Based on Persian Sources. New Delhi: Islamic Wonders Bureau. pp. 122–136. Search this book on
  9. ↑ Ersnt, Carl (1999). "The persecution of Muhammad Ghawth". In Fred De Jong; Berndt Redtke. Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Debate and Conflict. Islamic History and Civilization. Leiden: E.J. Brill. Search this book on
  10. ↑ Abdul Karim (2012). "Shah Jalal (R)". In Islam, Sirajul; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir. Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  11. ↑ Hanif, N (2000). "Jalal, Shaikh (d.1357 A.D.)". Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis: South Asia. Sarup & Sons. pp. 165–167. Search this book on
  12. ↑ Pandey, Shyam Manohar (1968). Sūfī kāvya vimarśa: Dāūda, Kutubana, Jāyasī tathā Mañjhana kī kr̥tiyoṃ kā adhyayana (in हिन्दी). Vinod Pustak Mandir. p. 155. Search this book on
  13. ↑ Raza, Asif (5 October 2019). माहे सफारुल मुज़फ्फर के महीने में किस बुज़रुग का उर्स किस तारीख को होता है. Muslim TTS (in हिन्दी).
  14. ↑ Siddiqi, KM (11 August 2017). হজরত শাহ জালাল (রহ.) সম্পর্কে তথ্য বিভ্রাট. Daily Inqilab (in Bengali).

Further reading[edit]

  • Muḥammad Ghausi Shattari; Fazl Ahmad Jiyuri; Z̲akir Ḥusain Shaikh. (۳۵۰) یاد شیخ علی شیر بنگالی. Gulzar-i abrar (in اردو). pp. 308–309. Search this book on


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