Wajihuddin Alvi

{{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}}{{Infobox religious biography

| name = Wajihuddin Alvi

| image = Wajihuddin Tomb.jpg

| caption = The shrine of Wajihuddin Alvi in Ahmedabad

| birth_date = 1490s

| birth_place = Ahmedabad, Gujarat

| death_date = {{death year and age|1580|1490}}

| death_place = Ahmedabad

| resting_place = Wajihuddin's Tomb

| teacher = Muhammad Ghous

| successor = Hashim Pir Dastagir

| students = Hashim Pir Dastagir
Usman Bengali
Yusuf Bengali

| religion = Islam

| Sufi_order = Shattari

| creed = Maturidi

| jurisprudence = Hanafi

}}

Shah Wajihuddin Alvi Gujarati ({{langx|fa|{{Nastaliq|شاه وجیه الدین علوی گجراتی}}}}), also known the epithet Haider Ali Saani ({{langx|fa|{{Nastaliq|حیدر علی ثانی}}}}), was an Islamic scholar and Sufi in the Shattari order.

Life

Wajihuddin Alvi Gujarati was born in Ahmedabad in 1504 into a family of Sufi scholars and jurists. In 1528 he founded the Alvi Madrasa which was Ahmedbad's most notable Islamic learning center for over a century and a half. He was made a member of the Shattariyya order by Muhammad Ghous. Under his leadership, Ahmedabad became a major centre of Islamic studies, attracting students from all over India, and many of his disciples became prominent figures, including Syed Sibghatallah al-Barwaji, who moved to Medina and established the Shattari tradition in Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Qadir, who settled in Ujjain, and Sheikh Abu Turab, who moved to Lahore, and students from Bengal such as Usman and Yusuf, who contributed to Islamic education in medieval Hindustan.{{cite book|language=ar|title=كتاب البدور المضية في تراجم الحنفية|author=al-Kumillai, Muhammad Hifzur Rahman|publisher=Dar al-Salih|location=Cairo, Egypt|year=2018|chapter=الشيخ الفاضل عثمان بن أبي عثمان البنغالي|trans-chapter=The honourable Shaykh ʿUthmān bin Abī ʿUthmān al-Bangālī}}{{cite book|title=Gulzar-e-Abrar|script-chapter=ur:(۶۰۸) یاد شیخ یوسف بنگالی رحمہ اللہ|pages=358–359|language=ur|url=https://sufinama.org/ebooks/gulzar-e-abrar-mohammad-ghausi-shattari-mandvi-ebooks}} He died in his madrasa in 1590.{{Cite book |last=Kugle |first=S. |title=Encyclopaedia of Islam Three Online |publisher=Brill |year=2010 |editor-last=Fleet |editor-first=K. |chapter=Alawī, Wajīh al-Dīn |editor-last2=Krämer |editor-first2=G. |editor-last3=Matringe |editor-first3=D. |editor-last4=Nawas |editor-first4=J. |editor-last5=Stewart |editor-first5=D.J.}}

Works

Wajihuddin Alvi is reported to have written books in Arabic and Persian:{{cite book|author1=Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli|author2=Zirikli|title=Al-Alam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxvPXBZQGaMC|year=2002|publisher= Islam Kotob|page=110}}

Hashiya Alvi Ala Tafsir Baydawi [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zy0TEAAAQBAJ حاشية العلوي على تفسير البيضاوي]
Sharh Nuzhat Al-Nazar [https://books.google.com/books?id=x79KDwAAQBAJ&q=%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%AD+%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%A9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%B1+ شرح نزهة النظر للكجراتي مع نخبة الفكر للعسقلاني]
Hashiya Alvi ala Sharh al-Jami [https://archive.org/details/hashiya-alvi-ala-sharh-al-jami حاشية علوي على شرح الجامي]
Aidah Haqiqat Sharh Haqiqat Muhamadi [https://archive.org/details/SharhHaqiqatIMuhammadi ايضاح حقيقت شرح حقيقت محمدي ]

Shrine

He died in 1580 CE.{{cite book|author1=Nūrulḥasan Hāshimī|author2=Valī|title=Wali|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEQuAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|page=13}} He is buried in a memorial tomb in Khanpur, Ahmedabad, built by his disciple Syed Murtuza Khan Bukhari, the eleventh (1606–1609) governor of Ahmedabad during the reign of Jahangir.{{cite book | last = Trimingham | first = John Spencer and Voll, John O. | title = The Sufi orders in Islam | publisher = Oxford University Press USA | year = 1998 | pages = 97–98 | isbn = 0-19-512058-2}}{{cite book|author=Achyut Yagnik|title=Ahmedabad: From Royal city to Megacity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivMAUx6Hdl8C&pg=PT42|date=2 February 2011|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-81-8475-473-5|page=42}}{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3354 |title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad |publisher=Government Central Press |year=1879 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3354/page/n284 278] }}

Wajihuddin Alvi

Life

Works

Shrine

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