Abdullah Shattar
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Siraj al-Din Abdullah Shattar (Arabic: سراج الدين عبد الله شتر) was a prominent 15th-century Sufi master, considered to be the eponymous founder of the Shattariyya order.[1] He brought his sufism order from Transoxiana to South Asian subcontinent, where his successors developed it further.[1][2] In the late 16th-century, the order was introduced to the Haramain, and through them to Southeast Asia.[1]
Abdullah studied Sufism according to the Isqiya and Bistamiya traditions, which thrived in Khorasan and Ottoman Turkey.[2][3] His master gave him the name Shattar, a Persian word of Arabic-origin meaning “lightning”, which designates a code of spiritual practices that lead to a rapid state of “completion”.[1][4] His learning's chain of transmission was from his master Muhammad Arif, then from Muhammad Ashiq, Khuda Quli, Abu'l Hasan al-Kharqani, Abu'l Muzaffar al-Tusi, Abu Yazid Ishqi, Muhammad al-Maghribi, from Bayazid Bistami.[5]
Abdullah went to India to promote his order and visited many Sufi groups to introduce his method.[1] He toured Delhi, Jaunpur, Bihar, Bengal, and Malwa, before settling down in Mandu under the patronage of Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq.[3] Abdullah continued to stay and propagated his order until he died in India in 1485.[1][6] Later on, his successors became influential over several Mughal rulers.[1]
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[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Shah, Idries (1999). The Sufis (illustrated, reprint ed.). Octagon Press Ltd. ISBN 9780863040740.
- ^ a b Ernst, Carl W. (1999). Fred De Jong, Berndt Redtke (ed.). "Persecution and Circumspection in the Shattari Sufi Order". Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Debate and Conflict, in 'Islamic History and Civilization'. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
- ^ a b Behl, Aditya (2012). Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545. OUP USA. ISBN 9780195146707.
- ^ Dehlvi, Ghulam Rasool (June 15, 2019). "Mystic Mantra: Gwalior's Sufi mystic and the yogic experience". Deccan Chronicle.
- ^ Christomy, Tommy (2008). "Linking to the Wider World of Sufism" (PDF). Signs of the Wali: Narratives at the Sacred Sites in Pamijahan, West Java. ANU Press.
- ^ Kugle, Scott (2011). Sufi's and Saints' Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam (illustrated ed.). Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807872772.
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