Place · Suhrawardi shrine town · Pakistan
Uch Sharīf
The town at the confluence of the Chenab, Sutlej and Beas in Bahawalpur district, Pakistan, holding the Suhrawardi shrine complex of Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari (1192-1294, a disciple of Bahauddin Zakariya), his grandson Jahaniyan Jahangasht, and the glazed-tile Bibi Jawindi tomb (1493). The Suhrawardi order spread downstream from Multan through Uch to the lower Indus and the Rajasthan deserts, and Uch's confluence site made it the natural staging-ground for Sufi missions into Rajputana and Sindh. The Bibi Jawindi tomb's Multan-blue tilework is among the finest in Pakistan; the complex is on UNESCO's tentative list.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Tradition
- Suhrawardi silsila
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 29.235, 71.064
Connections (2)
- Silsila lineageBahāuddin Zakariya & Rukn-e-Ālam
Uch Sharīf and Multan are the two Suhrawardi centres of the southern Punjab, ninety kilometres apart at two river junctions, and between them they hold the order's Indian history. Multan has Bahāuddīn Zakariyā and Rukn-e-Alam's great brick dome; Uch has the Jahāniyān Jahāngasht and Bībī Jawindī tombs in glazed blue tilework, several of them taken by a flood that cut the river through the site in 1817.
- Site adjacencyMultan
Uch Sharif — the Suhrawardi and Qadiri dargah complex where the Sutlej meets the Chenab — sits about 110 kilometres southwest of Multan in Bahawalpur district. Uch and Multan together are the Suhrawardi order's twin southern Punjab Sufi centres, with the Multan khanqah of Bahauddin Zakariya and the Uch khanqahs of Jalaluddin Bukhari and Makhdum Jahaniyan forming one connected thirteenth-and-fourteenth-century Sufi geography.
On these journeys
Sources
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