Syed Muhammad ibn Yousuf al-Hussaini (7 August 1321 − 10 November 1422)[citation needed], commonly known as Khwaja Banda Nawaz Gesudaraz, was a HanafiMaturidi scholar and Sufi saint from India of the Chishti Order.
Khwaja Banda Nawaz left Delhi on December 17, 1398, because the city was under siege by Timur and its fall was imminent.[4]
Works
Bande Nawaz wrote 195 books in Arabic, Persian and Urdu.[3] He also composed a book on the Prophet of Islam titled Miraj-al Ashiqin for the instruction of the masses in Dakhni, a South Indian branch of the Urdu language. He was the first Sufi to use this vernacular which was elaborated upon by many other Sufi saints of South India in later centuries.[5] He wrote many treatises on the works on Ibn Arabi and Suhrawardi, which made the works of these scholars accessible to Indian scholars and played a major role in influencing later mystical thought.[6] Other books authored are Qaseeda Amali and Adaab-al-Mureedein.
His death anniversary takes place on 15, 16 and 17 Dhu al-Qadah at the Bande Nawaz mausoleum in Gulbarga. Several hundred thousand people from different religions gather to seek blessings.[3]
In popular culture
Indian Muslim social films revolving around the saint and his dargah have been made. These include: Sultan E Deccan: Banda Nawaz (1982) by Malik Anwar, Banda Nawaz (1988) by Saini.[7]
^Eaton, Richard (2005). A Social History of The Deccan 1300–1761, Eight Indian Lives. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-51442-2.
^Mystical Dimensions of Islam By Annemarie Schimmel, Pg 351
^Irfan Habib, S. (October 2002). "Book reviews and notices : M.T. ANSARI, ed., Secularism, Islam and modernity. Selected essays of Alam Khundmiri. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001. 308 pp. Notes, index. Rs. 250 (paperback)". Contributions to Indian Sociology. 36 (3): 568–570. doi:10.1177/006996670203600313. S2CID220847929.
Askari, Syed Hasan, Tazkira-i Murshidi—Rare Malfuz of the 15th-Century Sufi Saint of Gulbarga. Proceedings of the Indian Historical Records Commission (1952).
Syed Shah Khusro Hussaini, "Gulbarga: Dargha of Hazrat Khwaja Bandanawaz Gisudaraz" in Mumtaz Currim, George Michell (Eds.), Darghas. Abodes of the Saint, Bombay, The Marg Foundation, 2004, 152 p. (ISBN 978-8-185-02665-7), p. 120-135
