Shaykh al-Mun`im al-Mukarram Alaul Haq Ganj-e-Nābāt | |
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Personal | |
Born | Umar bin Asad Khalidi 1301 AD |
Died | 1384-1398 AD (aged between 83 and 97) |
Religion | Sunni Islam |
Flourished | Late 12th century |
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Denomination | Hanafi |
Lineage | Khalid ibn al-Walid |
Relatives | Akhi Siraj (father-in-law), Badr Islam Abu Zahid (grandson) |
Organization | |
Order | Chishti Order |
Senior posting | |
Teacher | Akhi Siraj, Nizām ul-Haq Sarfī |
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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 |
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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]