Gaur, Bengal Sultanate (now Malda district, West Bengal, India)
Resting place
Pirana Pir Dargah, Sadullahpur, Malda, West Bengal
Religion
Sunni Islam
Flourished
13th-14th century
Denomination
Hanafi
Relatives
Alaul Haq (son-in-law) Nur Qutb Alam (grandson)
Order
Chishti Order
Senior posting
Teacher
Fakhruddin Zarradi, Ruknuddin, Nizamuddin Auliya
Students
Alaul Haq
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)
Uthman عثمان
Teknonymic (Kunya)
Akhi Siraj أخ سراج
Epithet (Laqab)
Siraj ad-Din سراج الدين
Toponymic (Nisba)
al-Bangali البنغالي Gauri/Al-Ghawri گوڑی/الغوري
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Bengal Sultanate
Ruling dynasties
Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1342–1414)
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah 1342-1358
Sikandar Shah 1358-1390
Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah 1390-1411
Saifuddin Hamza Shah 1411-1413
Muhammad bin Hamza Shah 1413
Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah 1413-1414
Alauddin Firuz Shah I 1414
House of Ganesha (1414–35)
Raja Ganesha 1414-1415
Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah 1415-1416
Raja Ganesha 1416-1418
Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah 1418-1433
Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah 1433-1435
Restored Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1435–87)
Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah 1435-1459
Ruknuddin Barbak Shah 1459-1474
Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah 1474-1481
Nuruddin Sikandar Shah 1481
Jalaluddin Fateh Shah 1481-1487
Habshi rule (1487–94)
Shahzada Barbak 1487
Saifuddin Firuz Shah 1487-1489
Mahmud Shah II 1489-1490
Shamsuddin Muzaffar Shah 1490-1494
Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494–1538)
Alauddin Hussain Shah 1494-1518
Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah 1518-1533
Alauddin Firuz Shah II 1533
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah 1533-1538
Muhammad Shahi dynasty (1554–64)
Shamsuddin Muhammad Shah 1554-1555
Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah I 1555-1561
Ghiyasuddin Jalal Shah 1561-1563
Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah II 1563-1564
Karrani dynasty (1564–76)
Taj Khan Karrani 1564-1565
Sulaiman Khan Karrani 1565-1572
Bayazid Khan Karrani 1572
Daud Khan Karrani 1572-1576
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Mint Towns:
Pandua
Sonargaon
Gaur
Khalifatabad
Satgaon
Chatgaon
Tanda
Fatehabad
Hajo
Cuttack
Jaunpur
Mrauk U
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Pathrail Mosque
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Goaldi Mosque
Majidbaria Mosque
Darasbari Mosque
Eklakhi Mausoleum
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Qasba Mosque
Kusumba Mosque
Sura Mosque
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Ekdala (1353-1359)
Jaunpur (1415-1420)
Reconquest of Arakan (1429-1430)
Kamata (1498)
Mrauk U (1512–1516)
Mughal invasion of Bengal
Ghaghra (1529)
Tukaroi (1575)
Rajmahal (1576)
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ʿUthmān Sirāj ad-Dīn al-Bangālī (Arabic: عثمان سراج الدين البنغالي; 1258-1357), known affectionately by followers as Akhi Siraj (Bengali: আখি সিরাজ), was a 14th-century Bengali Muslim scholar. He was a Sufi belonging to the Chishti Order and was a disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. As one of the senior disciples of Nizāmuddīn Auliyā, he spent long years with him in Delhi and earned the sobriquet of Āinā-e-Hind (Persian: آینه هندMirror of India).[1] His shrine, the Pirana Pir Dargah in Gaur, West Bengal, attracts hundreds of thousands of devotees every year.[2] Siraj and his successor, Alaul Haq, are credited with the rise to prominence of the Chishti order in Bengal.[3]
^"Biography of Akhi Siraj Aainae Hind Sufi from Gour Lakhnauti". www.akhisirajuddin.simplesite.com. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
^"Gaur". bharatonline.com. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
^Mudassar, MHK (ed.), حیات قطب عالمؒ [Life of Qutb Alam] (in Urdu)
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