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Shah e Alam

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Shahenshah E Gujarat Hamsabih E Rasool Mehboob E Baari Saiyed Muhammad Sirajuddin Shah E Alam Bukhari
Personal
Died20 Jumada al akhira 880 Hijri/21 October 1475 AD (aged 63)
Resting placeShah-e-Alam's Roza
ReligionIslam
FlourishedLate 13th century and early 14th century
Parents
  • Qutbul Aaftab Saiyed Abdullah Burhanuddin Qutub E Alam (father)
  • Sultana Makhdooma Bibi Aminah Siddiqua (mother)
Denominationspecifically the Suhrawardiyya of Sufism
Other names"Shahenshah e Gujarat Shahenshah e Wilayat"
Muslim leader
Based inAhmedabad
PredecessorShaikh Ahmed Ganj Bakhsh, Qutub e Alam Syed Burhanuddin Suhrwadiya

Shah e Alam, born on 17 Dhul Qidah 817 Hijri/18 January 1415 AD at Patan city in Gujarat, India, is a Muslim religious teacher and great Wali residing in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India during the Gujarat sultanant.

Life

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Syed Sirajuddin Muhammad, the son and successor of Syed Burhanuddin Qutub-e-Alam, came to be called by the title of Shah-e-Alam, king of the world. His father Sheikh Burhanuddin, also known as Qutub-e-Alam, was the grandson of Syed Makhdoom Jehaniya Jehan Gasht.[1] He arrived in Gujarat during the beginning of the fifteenth century during rule of Ahmed Shah I, settling on the outskirts of Ahmedabad of Gujarat

He died on 20 Jumada al akhira 880 Hijri/1475 AD. The mausoleum was built by Taj Kham Narpali and now known as Shah-e-Alam's Roza.[2]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Marat-e-Jalali (مرآت جلالی) by Syed Khalil Ahmed Bukhari Hassaini , First Edition 1918, Allahabad, Second Edition 1999, Karachi.
  2. ^ Achyut Yagnik (2 February 2011). Ahmedabad: From Royal city to Megacity. Penguin Books Limited. p. 35. ISBN 978-81-8475-473-5.