Alaul Haq

Shaykh al-Mun`im al-Mukarram
Alaul Haq
Ganj-e-Nābāt
Personal
Born
Umar bin Asad Khalidi

1301 AD
Died1384-1398 AD (aged between 83 and 97)
ReligionSunni Islam
FlourishedLate 12th century
Parent
  • As`ad Khālidī (father)
DenominationHanafi
LineageKhalid ibn al-Walid
RelativesAkhi Siraj (father-in-law), Badr Islam Abu Zahid (grandson)
Organization
OrderChishti Order
Senior posting
TeacherAkhi Siraj, Nizām ul-Haq Sarfī
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)Umar
عمر
Patronymic (Nasab)ibn As'ad
بن أسعد
Epithet (Laqab)Ala al-Haq wa ad-Din
علاء الحق والدين
Ala al-Haq
علاء الحق
Toponymic (Nisba)al-Khalidi
الخالدي
al-Bangali
البنغالي
Pandawi/Al-Bandawi
پانڈوی/الباندوي

ʿAlā ul-Ḥaq wa ad-Dīn ʿUmar ibn As`ad al-Khālidī al-Bangālī (Arabic: علاء الحق والدين عمر بن أسعد الخالدي البنغالي), commonly known as Alaul Haq (Bengali: আলাউল হক) or reverentially by the sobriquet Ganj-e-Nābāt (Persian: گنج نابات, Bengali: গঞ্জে নাবাত), was a 14th-century Islamic scholar of Bengal.[1] Posted in Hazrat Pandua, he was the senior disciple and successor of Akhi Siraj, and a Bengal Sultanate government official.[2]

  1. ^ Ismail, Muhammad (2010). Hagiology of Sufi Saints and the Spread of Islam in South Asia. Jnanada Prakashan. pp. 71–72.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference abd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).