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| Born | 1490s |
| Died | 1580 (aged 89–90) |
| Resting place | Wajihuddin's Tomb |
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| Teacher | Muhammad Ghawth |
| Successor | Hashim Pir Dastagir |
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Shah Wajihuddin Alvi Gujarati (Persian : شاه وجیه الدین علوی گجراتی), also known the epithet Haider Ali Saani (Persian : حیدر علی ثانی), was an Islamic scholar and Sufi in the Shattari tradition.
Wajīh al-Dīn ʿAlawī Gujarātī was born in Ahmedabad in 1504 into a family of Sufi scholars and jurists. In 1528 he founded the ʿAlawī 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 Ghawth Gwāliyārī. 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 passed away in his madrasa in 1590. [3]
Wajihuddin Alvi is reported to have written books in Arabic and Persian. [4]
He passed away in 1580 CE. [5] He is buried in a memorial tomb in Khanpur, Ahmedabad, that was built by his disciple Syed Murtuza Khan Bukhari, the eleventh (1606–1609) governor of Ahmedabad during the reign of Jahangir. [6] [7] [8]
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