Biography of great indian saints from bihar
Biography of great indian saints from bihar police.
Sharfuddin Yahya Maneri
Sufi mystic of medieval India
Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri, popularly known as Makhdoom-ul-Mulk Bihari[2] and Makhdoom-e-Jahan[3] (–), was a 13th-century Sufimystic and saint active in medieval Bihar.[4]
He was a maternal grandson of Pir Jagjot(Sayyid Shihab Ad-Din Al-Isma'ili Suhrawardi) who was the first Suhrawardi saint to come into India as well as the direct student of the famous Shihab Ad-Din Abu Hafs 'Umar Suhrawardi and of Najm Ad-Din Kubra, the founder of the Kubrawiyya Order.[5][6]
Early life
Sharafuddin Ahmad Yahya Maneri was born in Maner, a village near Patna in Bihar circa August to Kamaluddin Yahya Maneri bin Shaikh Israil Maneri, a Sufi saint of Suhrawardiyya order and Bibi Raziya alias Badi Bua bint Syed Shahabuddin Suhrawardi Peer Jagjot .[7]
His maternal grandfather Peer Jagjot, who is buried at Kachchi Dargah, near the Ganges in Patna district, was also a reve