Shah Amanat

Shah Amanat
Personal
Born
Shah Amanat Khan

Bihar Sharif, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died1773 CE
Laldighi, Islamabad, Chittagong District, Bengal Presidency, British India
Resting placeQuddus Serrahul Aziz Darbar Sharif
ReligionIslam
SpouseUmm Anwar
ChildrenShahzada Muhammad Anwar Khan
DenominationSunni
SchoolHanafi
TariqaNaqshbandi
Other namesAmanot Shah
Muslim leader
Based inChittagong
Period in office18th century
SuccessorShahzada Muhammad Anwar Khan
Disciple ofAbdur Rahim Rizvi
Disciples
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)Amānatullāh
أمانة الله
Patronymic (Nasab)ibn Niʿmatullāh Khān
بن نعمة الله خان

Shāh Amānat Khān (Bengali: শাহ আমানত খাঁন, Persian: شاه أمانت خان; died 1773), was an 18th-century Sufi Muslim figure in South Asia. He is regarded as one of the most prominent saints of Chittagong, in eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh).[1]

  1. ^ Harder, Hans (4 March 2011). "Introduction". Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh: The Maijbhandaris of Chittagong. Routledge. p. 13.