Shah Wajihuddin Alvi Gujarati (Persian: شاه وجیه الدین علوی گجراتی), also known the epithetHaider Ali Saani (Persian: 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.[1][2] 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.[1][2] He died in his madrasa in 1590.[3]
Works
Wajihuddin Alvi is reported to have written books in Arabic and Persian:[4]
^ abal-Kumillai, Muhammad Hifzur Rahman (2018). "الشيخ الفاضل عثمان بن أبي عثمان البنغالي" [The honourable Shaykh ʿUthmān bin Abī ʿUthmān al-Bangālī]. كتاب البدور المضية في تراجم الحنفية (in Arabic). Cairo, Egypt: Dar al-Salih.
^ ab (۶۰۸) یاد شیخ یوسف بنگالی رحمہ اللہ. Gulzar-e-Abrar (in Urdu). pp. 358–359.
^Kugle, S. (2010). "Alawī, Wajīh al-Dīn". In Fleet, K.; Krämer, G.; Matringe, D.; Nawas, J.; Stewart, D.J. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam Three Online. Brill.
^Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli; Zirikli (2002). Al-Alam. Islam Kotob. p. 110.
^Nūrulḥasan Hāshimī; Valī (1986). Wali. Sahitya Akademi. p. 13.
