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Timeline of the Sufis of Bengal
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Name

Dates

Place of origin

Place where mostly lived/buried

Affiliation

Predecessor

Successor

Works

Other important facts

Shah Sultan Rumi

Came to Maymansinghain 1053

 

Madanpur, Maymansinha(now in Bangladesh)

 

Syed Surkh-ul-Antiyah

 

 

 

Shah Sultan Balkhi

Eleventh century

Balkh

Mahasthan, Bagura, (now in Bangladesh )

 

ShyakhTaufik of Damascus

 

 

 

Baba Adam Shahid

Contemporary of Raja Ballal Sena(__--1119)

 

Bikrampur, Dhaka (Now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Shaykh Jalaluddin Tabriz

d. 1225

Itawa

Pandua, Maldah

Surawardiya Silsila

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Shah Daulah Shahid

Circa first quarter of thirteenth century

Yemen

Shahajadpur, Pabna(now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Shah Mahmud Ghaznavi (RaheePir)

Circa first quarter of thirteenth century

 

Mangalkot, Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Abdullah Kirmani Bangali

circa 1265

 

Khushtigiri, Birbhum

Chishtiya Silsila

Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti

 

 

 

Shah Shafi-ud-dinShahid

d. circa 1290/1295

Delhi

Pandua, Maldah

Qalandariya Silsila

 

 

 

 

Syed Makhdum Jahaniya Jahangast Bukhari ( Mir Syed Jalal-ud-din)

1307—1346

Bukhara

Pirgunj, Rangpur (now in Bangladesh)

Surawardiya Silsila

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Shah

Circa 1326

 

Rampur, Boyaliya, Rajshahi (now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Allah

14th century

 

Gaud, Maldah

Madariya Silsila

Badi-ud-din Shah-e-Madar

 

 

 

Shah Jalal Muzaddad-e-Kuniyai

d.1346

Kuniya, Turkey

Syllet(now in Bangladesh)

Surawardiya Silsila

Syed Ahmad Kabir Surawardiya

 

 

 

 

 

Badar Shah

Alive during the reign of Sultan Fakruddin Mubarak Shah (1336-1352) the local king of Subarna Gram

 

Bakshi Bazar, Chitagong (now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Kattal Pir

Contemporary of Badar Shah

 

Kattalganj, Chittagong (now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Shaikh Riya Biybani

d.1353  Contemporary of Sultan Iliyas Shah(1339-58)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Akhi Siraj-ud-din Badayuni

d. 1357

Delhi

Gaud, Maldah

Chishtiya Nizamiya Silsila

Nizam-ud-din Awliya

Shaikh Ala-ud-din Alaul Haq

 

 

Shah Anwar Quli Halvi

Died before 1375

Aleppo, Syria

Mollasimla, Furfura Sharif, Hooghly 

 

 

 

 

 

Shah MahsinAulia

d.1397

 

Chitagong (now in Bangladesh) 

 

 

 

 

 

Shaykh Alauddin Alaul Haq

d.1398

Lahore

Pandua, Maldah

ChishtiyaNizamiyaSilsila

Akhi Siraj-ud-din

Noor-ud-din Qutub-e-Alam, Nasiruddin Manikpuri, Ashraf Jahangir Simnani.

 

 

Syed-ul-Arefin

Circa last quarter of fourteenth century

 

Kalishundi, Bakharganj( now in Bangldesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Noor-ud-din Qutub-e-Alam

d.1416

Pandua, Hooghly

Pandua, Maldah

Chishtiya Nizamiya Silsila

Shaikh Ala-ud-din Alaul Haq ,Shaikh Hamid-ud-din Nagori ,

ShaikhZahid, Shaikh HisamuddinManikpuri(Bihar), Shah Kalu(Lahore),Shamshuddin Tahir( Ajmer), JalaluddinGujrati.

 

 

Shaykh Anwar 

Fifteenth century 

Pandua, Hooghly

Sonargaon( now in Bangladesh)

Chishtiya Nizamiya Silsila

Noor-ud-din Qutub-e-Alam

 

 

 

Shaykh Zahid

1455

Pandua, Hooghly

Chhoti Dargah, Pandua, Hooghly

Chishtiya Nizamiya Silsila

Noor-ud-din Qutub-e-Alam

 

 

 

Pir Badar ( Badar-ud-din Badar-e-Alam ) and PirMajlish

d. 1440

Bihar (?)

Bihar and Kalna, Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Gada

Circa d.1455

 

Old Maldah

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Ismail Ghaji

d.1474

Mecca

Kantaduar,Rangpur(now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Jalal Dakini

d.1476

 

Dhaka( now in Bangladesh )

 

Shaykh Piyarah

 

 

 

Shaikh Hisam-ud-din Manikpuri

d. 1477 

Purnea( now in Bihar)

Manikpur, Uttar Pradesh

Chishtiya Nizamiya Silsila

Noor-ud-din Qutub-e-Alam

Hamid Shah Raji

RafiqqulArefin

 

Shah Ali Baghdadi

Died before 1480

 

Meerpur, Dhaka, (Now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Langar

Contemporary of Sultan Shamsuddin Ahmed Shah (1431-1442)

 

Muazzampur, Rupganj, Dhaka        (now in Bangladesh )

 

 

 

 

 

Mullah Ata-ud-din

Died before the reign of Husain Shah (1493-1519) 

 

Hemtabad, Dinajpur

 

 

 

 

 

Hamid Shah Raji

d. 1495

Manikpur

 

ChishtiyaNizamiyaSilsila

Hisam-ud-din Manikpuri

 

 

 

Shah Sultan Ansari

Alive in 1500

Mangalkot

Mangalkot, Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Pir Badar-ud-din

Alive during the reign of Husain Shah(1493-1519)

 

Hemtabad, Dinajpur

 

 

 

 

 

Maulana Shah Daula

Circa 1519

 

Bagha, Rajshahi.(now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Abdullah Gujrati

Alive before or during the reign of Nusrat Shah(1519-1532)

Gujarat

Mangalkot, Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Shaykh Khalil

Alive during (1532-1538) Guru of Sher Shah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Sultan Ansari

Alive in 1540

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haji Bahram Saqqa

d.1562

Turkey

Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Syed Shah Nimatullah

Died before 1563

 

Firojpur, Gaud, Maldah

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Kwamish

d. 1584

Baghdad

Salar, Murshidabad

Qadriya

 

 

 

 

Syed-ul-Arefin

Circa last quarter of the fourteenth century

 

Kalishuri, Bakharganj(now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Shah

Pir

d. 1632 (?)

 

Satkaniya, Chittagong (now in Bangladesh) 

 

 

 

 

 

Shaikh Hamid Danishmnd Bangali )

1560-1654

Mangalkot, Burdwan

Mangalkot, Burdwan

Mujaddediya

Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi (Mujaddad-e-alf-Thani)

 

 

 

Syed Neek Mardan

 

 

Neekmardan, Dinajpur

 

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Shah Jahir-ud-din

16th century

Makhdum Nagar

Makhdum Nagar, Birbhum

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Mir Dhakir Ali Al-Qadri

 

Came to Mangalkot after Hamid Danishmand(1560-1654)

 

Mangalkot, Burdwan

Qadriya

 

 

 

 

Syed Shah Nimatullah

d.1664

Karnaul, Delhi

Firuzpur, Gaud

 

 

 

 

 

Qazi Muwakkil

1659-1707

 

Mir Sarai, Chitagong

 

 

 

 

 

Khwaja Anwar Shah

d.1715

Burdwan

Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Hazrat Shah Abdur Rahim Shahid

1661- 1745

Kashmir

Dhaka

Naqshbandiya

 

Sufi Hedayetullah

 

 

Shah Sufi Amanatullah

Died in the second half of the eighteenth century

 

Dhaka

Naqshbandiya

Hazrat Shah Abdur Rahim Shahid

 

 

 

Maula Ali Shah

1670-1760

Badayun

Maulali, Kolkata

 

 

 

 

 

Hazrat Zaker All Al-Qaderi

1699-1778

Baghdad

Mangalkot, Burdwan

Qadri

 

Syedana Hazrat Shah Tufail Ali al Qaderi

 

 

Syed Ruhullah al-Hussaini

 

1724-1797

Baghdad

Kumarpur, Mednapur

 

 

Syed Badiuddin

 

 

Hazrat Ghulam Ali

d.1804

Jaunpur

Pirnagar, Arambagh, Hooghly

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Babullah

Eighteenth century  

 

Mazar Sharif of ChandanShahid, Mednapur

 

 

 

 

 

Syed Muhammad Dayem

d.1799

Chitagong

Dhaka

 

Shah Sufi Amanatullah

 

 

 

Syedana Hazrat Shah Tufail Ali al Qaderi

d.1835

Baghdad

Mednapore, Mangalkot

Qadri

Hazrat Zaker Ali Al-Qaderi

 

 

 

Hazrat Maulana Syed Khwaia Miskin Ali Shah Chishti

d.9th September, 1846

Delhi

Nona Pukur

Tram Depot, 24 BeniaPukur Lane, Kolkata-700014

 

 

 

 

 

Hazrat Noor Muhammad Nizampuri

d.1854

Dandira village in

Noakhali district of Bangladesh,

Nizampur in Mirsarai, Chittagong(now in Bangladesh)

 

Syed Ahmed

Barelvi (1786-1831)

 

 

 

Shah AhmedUllah

d. 23 January, 1906

 

Chittagong (now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Dates

Place of origin

Place where mostly lived/buried

Affiliation

Predecessor

Successor

Works

Other important facts

Shah Sultan Rumi

Came to Maymansinghain 1053

 

Madanpur, Maymansinha(now in Bangladesh)

 

Syed Surkh-ul-Antiyah

 

 

 

Shah Sultan Balkhi

Eleventh century

Balkh

Mahasthan, Bagura, (now in Bangladesh )

 

ShyakhTaufik of Damascus

 

 

 

Baba Adam Shahid

Contemporary of Raja Ballal Sena(__--1119)

 

Bikrampur, Dhaka (Now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Shaykh Jalaluddin Tabriz

d. 1225

Itawa

Pandua, Maldah

Surawardiya Silsila

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Shah Daulah Shahid

Circa first quarter of thirteenth century

Yemen

Shahajadpur, Pabna(now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Shah Mahmud Ghaznavi (RaheePir)

Circa first quarter of thirteenth century

 

Mangalkot, Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Abdullah Kirmani Bangali

circa 1265

 

Khushtigiri, Birbhum

Chishtiya Silsila

Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti

 

 

 

Shah Shafi-ud-dinShahid

d. circa 1290/1295

Delhi

Pandua, Maldah

Qalandariya Silsila

 

 

 

 

Syed Makhdum Jahaniya Jahangast Bukhari ( Mir Syed Jalal-ud-din)

1307—1346

Bukhara

Pirgunj, Rangpur (now in Bangladesh)

Surawardiya Silsila

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Shah

Circa 1326

 

Rampur, Boyaliya, Rajshahi (now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Allah

14th century

 

Gaud, Maldah

Madariya Silsila

Badi-ud-din Shah-e-Madar

 

 

 

Shah Jalal Muzaddad-e-Kuniyai

d.1346

Kuniya, Turkey

Syllet(now in Bangladesh)

Surawardiya Silsila

Syed Ahmad Kabir Surawardiya

 

 

 

 

 

Badar Shah

Alive during the reign of Sultan Fakruddin Mubarak Shah (1336-1352) the local king of Subarna Gram

 

Bakshi Bazar, Chitagong (now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Kattal Pir

Contemporary of Badar Shah

 

Kattalganj, Chittagong (now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Shaikh Riya Biybani

d.1353  Contemporary of Sultan Iliyas Shah(1339-58)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Akhi Siraj-ud-din Badayuni

d. 1357

Delhi

Gaud, Maldah

Chishtiya Nizamiya Silsila

Nizam-ud-din Awliya

Shaikh Ala-ud-din Alaul Haq

 

 

Shah Anwar Quli Halvi

Died before 1375

Aleppo, Syria

Mollasimla, Furfura Sharif, Hooghly 

 

 

 

 

 

Shah MahsinAulia

d.1397

 

Chitagong (now in Bangladesh) 

 

 

 

 

 

Shaykh Alauddin Alaul Haq

d.1398

Lahore

Pandua, Maldah

ChishtiyaNizamiyaSilsila

Akhi Siraj-ud-din

Noor-ud-din Qutub-e-Alam, Nasiruddin Manikpuri, Ashraf Jahangir Simnani.

 

 

Syed-ul-Arefin

Circa last quarter of fourteenth century

 

Kalishundi, Bakharganj( now in Bangldesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Noor-ud-din Qutub-e-Alam

d.1416

Pandua, Hooghly

Pandua, Maldah

Chishtiya Nizamiya Silsila

Shaikh Ala-ud-din Alaul Haq ,Shaikh Hamid-ud-din Nagori ,

ShaikhZahid, Shaikh HisamuddinManikpuri(Bihar), Shah Kalu(Lahore),Shamshuddin Tahir( Ajmer), JalaluddinGujrati.

 

 

Shaykh Anwar 

Fifteenth century 

Pandua, Hooghly

Sonargaon( now in Bangladesh)

Chishtiya Nizamiya Silsila

Noor-ud-din Qutub-e-Alam

 

 

 

Shaykh Zahid

1455

Pandua, Hooghly

Chhoti Dargah, Pandua, Hooghly

Chishtiya Nizamiya Silsila

Noor-ud-din Qutub-e-Alam

 

 

 

Pir Badar ( Badar-ud-din Badar-e-Alam ) and PirMajlish

d. 1440

Bihar (?)

Bihar and Kalna, Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Gada

Circa d.1455

 

Old Maldah

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Ismail Ghaji

d.1474

Mecca

Kantaduar,Rangpur(now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Jalal Dakini

d.1476

 

Dhaka( now in Bangladesh )

 

Shaykh Piyarah

 

 

 

Shaikh Hisam-ud-din Manikpuri

d. 1477 

Purnea( now in Bihar)

Manikpur, Uttar Pradesh

Chishtiya Nizamiya Silsila

Noor-ud-din Qutub-e-Alam

Hamid Shah Raji

RafiqqulArefin

 

Shah Ali Baghdadi

Died before 1480

 

Meerpur, Dhaka, (Now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Langar

Contemporary of Sultan Shamsuddin Ahmed Shah (1431-1442)

 

Muazzampur, Rupganj, Dhaka        (now in Bangladesh )

 

 

 

 

 

Mullah Ata-ud-din

Died before the reign of Husain Shah (1493-1519) 

 

Hemtabad, Dinajpur

 

 

 

 

 

Hamid Shah Raji

d. 1495

Manikpur

 

ChishtiyaNizamiyaSilsila

Hisam-ud-din Manikpuri

 

 

 

Shah Sultan Ansari

Alive in 1500

Mangalkot

Mangalkot, Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Pir Badar-ud-din

Alive during the reign of Husain Shah(1493-1519)

 

Hemtabad, Dinajpur

 

 

 

 

 

Maulana Shah Daula

Circa 1519

 

Bagha, Rajshahi.(now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Abdullah Gujrati

Alive before or during the reign of Nusrat Shah(1519-1532)

Gujarat

Mangalkot, Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Shaykh Khalil

Alive during (1532-1538) Guru of Sher Shah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Sultan Ansari

Alive in 1540

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haji Bahram Saqqa

d.1562

Turkey

Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Syed Shah Nimatullah

Died before 1563

 

Firojpur, Gaud, Maldah

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Kwamish

d. 1584

Baghdad

Salar, Murshidabad

Qadriya

 

 

 

 

Syed-ul-Arefin

Circa last quarter of the fourteenth century

 

Kalishuri, Bakharganj(now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

Shah

Pir

d. 1632 (?)

 

Satkaniya, Chittagong (now in Bangladesh) 

 

 

 

 

 

Shaikh Hamid Danishmnd Bangali )

1560-1654

Mangalkot, Burdwan

Mangalkot, Burdwan

Mujaddediya

Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi (Mujaddad-e-alf-Thani)

 

 

 

Syed Neek Mardan

 

 

Neekmardan, Dinajpur

 

 

 

 

 

Makhdum Shah Jahir-ud-din

16th century

Makhdum Nagar

Makhdum Nagar, Birbhum

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Mir Dhakir Ali Al-Qadri

 

Came to Mangalkot after Hamid Danishmand(1560-1654)

 

Mangalkot, Burdwan

Qadriya

 

 

 

 

Syed Shah Nimatullah

d.1664

Karnaul, Delhi

Firuzpur, Gaud

 

 

 

 

 

Qazi Muwakkil

1659-1707

 

Mir Sarai, Chitagong

 

 

 

 

 

Khwaja Anwar Shah

d.1715

Burdwan

Burdwan

 

 

 

 

 

Hazrat Shah Abdur Rahim Shahid

1661- 1745

Kashmir

Dhaka

Naqshbandiya

 

Sufi Hedayetullah

 

 

Shah Sufi Amanatullah

Died in the second half of the eighteenth century

 

Dhaka

Naqshbandiya

Hazrat Shah Abdur Rahim Shahid

 

 

 

Maula Ali Shah

1670-1760

Badayun

Maulali, Kolkata

 

 

 

 

 

Hazrat Zaker All Al-Qaderi

1699-1778

Baghdad

Mangalkot, Burdwan

Qadri

 

Syedana Hazrat Shah Tufail Ali al Qaderi

 

 

Syed Ruhullah al-Hussaini

 

1724-1797

Baghdad

Kumarpur, Mednapur

 

 

Syed Badiuddin

 

 

Hazrat Ghulam Ali

d.1804

Jaunpur

Pirnagar, Arambagh, Hooghly

 

 

 

 

 

Shah Babullah

Eighteenth century  

 

Mazar Sharif of ChandanShahid, Mednapur

 

 

 

 

 

Syed Muhammad Dayem

d.1799

Chitagong

Dhaka

 

Shah Sufi Amanatullah

 

 

 

Syedana Hazrat Shah Tufail Ali al Qaderi

d.1835

Baghdad

Mednapore, Mangalkot

Qadri

Hazrat Zaker Ali Al-Qaderi

 

 

 

Hazrat Maulana Syed Khwaia Miskin Ali Shah Chishti

d.9th September, 1846

Delhi

Nona Pukur

Tram Depot, 24 BeniaPukur Lane, Kolkata-700014

 

 

 

 

 

Hazrat Noor Muhammad Nizampuri

d.1854

Dandira village in

Noakhali district of Bangladesh,

Nizampur in Mirsarai, Chittagong(now in Bangladesh)

 

Syed Ahmed

Barelvi (1786-1831)

 

 

 

Shah AhmedUllah

d. 23 January, 1906

 

Chittagong (now in Bangladesh)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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