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Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari

جلال الدين سرخ بوش البخاري

c. 1199 CE · 595 AH –

Bukhara

Sayyid Jalaluddin Husayn al-Naqvi al-Bukhari (595–690 AH / 1199–1291 CE), known as Surkh-Posh ('clad in red'), a Sufi saint born at Bukhara who fled the Mongol invasion, took the Suhrawardi order at Multan from Bahauddin Zakariya, and settled in 1244 at Uch in Sindh, which he made a Suhrawardi centre, founding the order's Jalali branch; he is the grandfather of Makhdum-i Jahaniyan Jahangasht.

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At a glance

Roles
sufi master · Preacher
Region
Persia & Central Asia · South Asia
Identifiers
Wikidata

Life in time

1175120012251250127513001325 c. c. c. c. c. c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari, musnid of the age · Zaynab bint Makki of Harran · al-Kamal al-Fuwayra, musnid of Iraq · Baha' al-Din al-Qifti, qadi of Isna · Ibn Bulayman, the adib

In space

Bukhara

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Place in the story

    sufi (documented)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Connections

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    Related to
    Jahaniyan Jahangasht
    Born in
    Bukhara
    Member of
    Suhrawardiyya

    People and things also explored

    Suhrawardiyya· Jahaniyan Jahangasht· Al-Biruni takes refuge at Bukhara· The killing of Sultan Alp Arslan and the accession of Malikshah· Birth of Imam al-Bukhari at Bukhara, Shawwal 194/810· Al-Bukhari's first hearing of hadith at Bukhara, 205/820· Conquest of Bukhara· Russian Conquest of Bukhara

    Sources

    • Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari — English Wikipedia
    • Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari — Wikidata
    • Hasan Ali Khan, Constructing Islam on the Indus (2016)
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jalaluddin-surkh-posh-bukhari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-31.

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    Suhrawardiyya

    Draft card for the Suhrawardiyya, the Sufi order named for Shihab al-Din Umar al-Suhrawardi, author of 'Awarif al-Ma'arif'; covered by the cited survey of Islamic history, the page not yet checked.