Syed Muhammad ibn Yousuf al-Hussaini (7 August 1321 − 10 November 1422)[citation needed], commonly known as Khwaja Banda Nawaz Gesudaraz, was a
HanafiMaturidi scholar and
Sufi saint from
India of the
Chishti Order.
Khwaja Banda Nawaz left Delhi on December 17, 1398, because the city was under siege by
Timur and its fall was imminent.[4]
Works
Bande Nawaz wrote 195 books in
Arabic,
Persian and
Urdu.[3] He also composed a book on the
Prophet of Islam titled Miraj-al Ashiqin for the instruction of the masses in
Dakhni, a South Indian branch of the Urdu language. He was the first Sufi to use this vernacular which was elaborated upon by many other Sufi saints of South India in later centuries.[5] He wrote many treatises on the works on
Ibn Arabi and
Suhrawardi, which made the works of these scholars accessible to Indian scholars and played a major role in influencing later mystical thought.[6] Other books authored are Qaseeda Amali and Adaab-al-Mureedein.
His death anniversary takes place on 15, 16 and 17 Dhu al-Qadah at the Bande Nawaz mausoleum in Gulbarga. Several hundred thousand people from different religions gather to seek blessings.[3]
In popular culture
Indian
Muslim social films revolving around the saint and his
dargah have been made. These include: Sultan E Deccan: Banda Nawaz (1982) by Malik Anwar, Banda Nawaz (1988) by Saini.[7]
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^Mystical Dimensions of Islam By Annemarie Schimmel, Pg 351
^Irfan Habib, S. (October 2002). "Book reviews and notices : M.T. ANSARI, ed., Secularism, Islam and modernity. Selected essays of Alam Khundmiri. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001. 308 pp. Notes, index. Rs. 250 (paperback)". Contributions to Indian Sociology. 36 (3): 568–570.
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Askari, Syed Hasan, Tazkira-i Murshidi—Rare Malfuz of the 15th-Century Sufi Saint of Gulbarga. Proceedings of the Indian Historical Records Commission (1952).
Hussaini, Syed Shah Khusro, Gisudaraz on Wahdat al-Wujud. Studies in Islam 19 (1982), pp. 233–45.
Hussaini, Syed Shah Khusro, Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni Gisu Daraz: On Sufism Delhi: Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1985.
Hussaini, Syed Shah Khusro, Shuhud vs. Wujud: A Study of Gisudiraz Islamic Culture 59 (1985), pp. 323–39.
Syed Shah Khusro Hussaini, "Gulbarga: Dargha of Hazrat Khwaja Bandanawaz Gisudaraz" in Mumtaz Currim, George Michell (Eds.), Darghas. Abodes of the Saint, Bombay, The Marg Foundation, 2004, 152 p. (ISBN 978-8-185-02665-7), p. 120-135