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Saints and Tombs of Chittagong

4 sourced records · 4 verified locations

The atlas holds 4 records for Chittagong. Each record's sources and review status are shown on its own page. Breakdown: 4 Saints.

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Saint

Sayyid Ahmad Ullah Maizbhandari

A Sufi born in Bengal (1826) regarded as the founder of the Maizbhandari order, the only indigenous Sufi tariqa to have originated within the Bengal region. Traced to the Qadiri lineage, he combined madrasa scholarship with Sufi practice and local Bengali devotional expression. He died on 23 January 1906 in his native village of Maizbhandar, Fatikchhari, Chittagong, and was buried there. His tomb forms the Maizbhandar Darbar Sharif, one of Bangladesh's largest pilgrimage centres, hosting an annual urs attended by hundreds of thousands.

ChittagongDied 1323 AHView
Saint

Sayyid Gulamur Rahman (Baba Bhandari)

A Sufi born in 1865 in the village of Maizbhandar, Fatikchhari, popularly titled 'Baba Bhandari'. He succeeded his uncle Sayyid Ahmad Ullah, founder of the Maizbhandari order, as its head and played a major role in the order's spread. He died in 1937 and was buried at Maizbhandar among his forebears. His tomb, a distinct shrine within the Maizbhandar Darbar Sharif complex, is one of the order's central pilgrimage sites.

ChittagongDied 1356 AHView
Saint

Shah Amanat

An 18th-century Sufi saint regarded as one of the foremost saints of the Chittagong (Chattogram) region of eastern Bengal. He founded the Khanqah Amanatiya and taught within the Naqshbandi and Qadiri orders. His shrine near Laldighi draws large crowds, especially during Ramadan; Chittagong's Shah Amanat International Airport is named after him. (Sources: Banglapedia 'Shah Amanat (R)'; Wikipedia 'Shah Amanat'; Harder 2011)

ChittagongDied 1773View
Saint

Bayazid Bastami (Chittagong Maqam)

NOTE - MAQAM/DISPUTED: Abu Yazid al-Bistami was a 9th-century Persian Sufi, a pioneer of the 'intoxicated' (sukr) school, who died and is buried in Bistam, Iran. Sources state plainly that the Chittagong structure is NOT his actual grave but a jawab/maqam (commemorative imitation tomb); Banglapedia records it was 'discovered' in 1831. The complex pond holds the critically endangered Bostami black softshell turtle. (Sources: Banglapedia 'Bayejid Bostami', Abdul Karim 2012; Wikipedia 'Shrine of Bayazid Bostami')

ChittagongDied 261 AHView

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