Sultan Makhdoom Ashraf Jahangir Semnani[1] (
Urdu: سلطان سید مخدوم اشرف جہانگیر سمنانی; (1285–1386)[2][3][4][5] was an
IranianSufi saint from
Semnan,
Iran. He was the founder of the Ashrafi Sufi order. He is India's third most influential Sufi saint after Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of
Ajmer and Nizamuddin Auliya of
Delhi.[6]
His father Sultan Ibrahim Noorbaksh was the local ruler of Semnan.[7] Semnani was claimed to be the descendant of the Islamic prophet,
Muhammad, through his grandson
Husayn ibn Ali. His mother Bibi Khadija was said to be a descendant of the
Turkic Sufi saint
Ahmad Yasawi.[7]
At the age of 23, Semnani abdicated his throne in favor of his brother Sultan Sayyid Muhammad. Thereafter, Semnani migrated to
Bengal in order to meet
Alaul Haq Pandavi.[15][14]
^‘'MUQADDEMA-E- LATĀIF-E-ASHRAFI' Book in PERSIAN, Published by Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
^Akhbarul Akhyar' By Abdal Haqq Muhaddith Dehlwi [d.1052H-1642]. A short biography of the prominent sufis of India have been mentioned in this book including that of Ashraf Jahangir Semnani
Ashraf, Syed Waheed (2010), Lataife Ashrafi & Maktubaate Ashrafi As Sources of Indian Medieval History (Lataife Ashrafi & Maktubvate Ashrafi As Sources of Indian Medieval History ed.), Baroda, Gujarat, India: Makhdoom Syed Ashraf Jahangir Academy, Baroda,
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