Place · Sufi khanqah · India
Phulwari Sharif, Patna
Also known as Mujibullah Khanqah, Patna, Phulwari Sharif
The Khanqah tradition at Phulwari Sharif in Patna district, Bihar, 10 kilometres from Patna — the 18-century Islamic seminary and Sufi khanqah tradition established by Hazrat Shah Mujibullah (1683-1740), a Firdausi-Chishti Sufi who built the Phulwari Sharif complex to combine Sufi practice with formal Islamic scholarship. The Phulwari Sharif Khanqah became one of the three major Islamic seminaries of Bihar (with Bihar Sharif and Maner Sharif). The current complex includes the main dargah, the madrasa Islamia Shamsul Huda (established 1912), and the 1952 Khanqah Mujibia (named for Shah Mujibullah). The annual Urs each 15-17 Rabi-al-Awwal draws Sufi pilgrims. The complex is managed by the Phulwari Sharif Dargah Trust. The 2015 Phulwari Sharif Khanqah Research Institute began publishing the complex's archive.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 25.590, 85.150
Connections (2)
- Silsila lineageManer Sharif, Patna district
Phulwāri Sharīf and Maner Sharīf are the eighteenth-century and the medieval poles of Bihar's khānqāh tradition, about thirty kilometres apart around Patna. Maner holds the Firdausi lineage's elder seat and its Mughal-era domed tomb standing in a tank; Phulwāri added a madrasa to the khānqāh, so teaching and Sufi practice shared a compound — the arrangement most north Indian Islamic learning actually took.
- Site adjacencyPatna Sāhib
Phulwari Sharif is the Sufi khanqah of Shah Muhibbullah on the southwestern edge of Patna, now a suburb of the city; it sits outside the walled takht precinct of Patna Sāhib and belongs beside it in greater Patna rather than inside the Sikh gurdwara.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Phulwari Sharif”. Chishti tazkira literature; Carl Ernst and Bruce Lawrence, Sufi Martyrs of Love (2002).
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