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Makhdoom Sahib, Srinagar
Also known as Hari Parbat, Makhdoom Sahib, Makhdoom Sahib — Hari Parbat, Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom, Srinagar
The 16-century Makhdoom Sahib dargah on Hari Parbat hill at Srinagar, Kashmir — the dargah of Hazrat Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom (1494-1576), a Suhrawardi Kashmiri Sufi who was a disciple of the Rishi Order (Kashmir's indigenous syncretic Sufi tradition). The dargah sits halfway up Hari Parbat hill, overlooking Srinagar and the Dal Lake. The current structure is 16-century with major 18-century Afghan period additions and 1990s renovations after Kashmir conflict-related damage. The Hari Parbat hill is simultaneously sacred to Kashmiri Hindus (as the Sharika Devi temple at the summit) and Muslims (through the Makhdoom Sahib dargah), making it one of the clearest cases of composite Kashmiri religious geography. The annual Urs each 15-16 Rajab draws over 100,000 Kashmiri Muslim pilgrims. The dargah is managed by the Makhdoom Sahib Dargah Committee.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 34.083, 74.817
Connections (2)
- Companion in the same setCharār-e-Sharīf
Makhdūm Sāhib sits inside the Mughal fort wall on Hari Parbat with a Sharika Devi temple on the same slope and a gurdwara at its foot, and Charār-e-Sharīf holds Nund Rishi, founder of the Kashmiri Rishi order. Between them they hold the valley's two Islamic strands: the Suhrawardi order that arrived from Central Asia, and the Rishi tradition that grew out of Kashmiri Śaivism and wrote in Kashmiri.
- Site withinSrinagar
The Makhdoom Sahib shrine sits on the southern slope of Hari Parbat hill in Srinagar, holding the tomb of the sixteenth-century Suhrawardi Sufi Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom. The shrine is set within the Mughal wall of Nagar Nagar that Akbar threw around the hill in 1590 and is one of the three Sufi anchors — with Hazratbal and Shah-e-Hamadan — of Srinagar's inner city Islam.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Hamza Makhdoom”. Chishti tazkira literature; Carl Ernst and Bruce Lawrence, Sufi Martyrs of Love (2002).
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