Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi

Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi
Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi
	میر شمس الدین اراقی
Personal
Born	c. 1440 CE (13 Rajab 861 AH); Isfahan, Iran
Died	c. 1515 CE (01 Rabīʿ al-ʾAwwal 936 AH); Chadoora, Kashmir Valley
Religion	Shia Islam
Ethnicity	Iranian
Tariqa	Noorbakshia
Other names	Mir Syed Muhammad Musavi Isfahani
Senior posting
Based in	Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Period in office	1460–1515
Predecessor	Aga Mir Syed Ibrahim Musavi Isfahani
Post	Allama, Sufi cleric
Website	raheislam.org

Mir Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Araqi (Persian: میر شمس الدین محمد اراقی‎; c. 1440–1515 CE), also known as Mir Syed Muhammad Musavi Isfahani, was an Iranian Sufi Muslim saint, known for having introduced the tenets held by Muhammad Noorbaksh Qahistani, a 15th-century Iranian Sufi who gave name to the Noorbakshia school of Islam.[1] Araqi was part of the order of Twelver Shia Sufis in Jammu and Kashmir who greatly influenced the social fabric of the Kashmir Valley and its surrounding regions.

Grave of Mir Shahms-ud-Din Araqi

Arrival in Kashmir and work

Araqi migrated to the Kashmir region from Araq, Iran via the Gilgit–Skardu road into Ladakh[2] as an envoy of Hassan Shah, eventually becoming an independent religious missionary. He is considered by some to be the effective founder of Shia Islam in Ladakh and Gilgit–Baltistan, as well as in the rest of Jammu and Kashmir and its adjoining areas.[3][2] After arriving in Srinagar, he established his Khanqah in the suburbs (now known as Zaddibal), which would later go on to produce many of Kashmir's future military leaders. He was best known for influencing the nobles of the Chak clan to embrace the Noorbakshia Sufi Islamic faith as well as Shia Islam as a whole. Araqi translated the Fiqh-i-Ahwat (book of jurisprudence), which was written in Arabic by his teacher, Syed Muhammad Noorbaksh.

Death

Araqi died in 1515 and was buried at Zaddibal in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.[2] His body was later shifted to Chadoora for unknown reasons, where he is currently buried at a Sufi Islamic shrine.[2] Araqi was a descendant of Musa al-Kadhim, the seventh Imam in Twelver Shia Islam.

Family tree of Mir Shams-ud-din Araqi

References

Shiri Ram Bakshi (1997). Kashmir: Valley and Its Culture. Sarup & Sons. p. 231. ISBN 978-81-85431-97-0.
تاریخ شیعیان کشمیر [History of the Shiites of Kashmir].
Yatoo, Altaf Hussain (2012). The Islamization of Kashmir: A Study of Muslim Missionaries. Kashmir, India: Gulshan Books. ISBN 9788183391467.

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[Bakshi1997-1] Shiri Ram Bakshi (1997). Kashmir: Valley and Its Culture. Sarup & Sons. p. 231. ISBN 978-81-85431-97-0.

[auto-2] تاریخ شیعیان کشمیر [History of the Shiites of Kashmir].

[3] Yatoo, Altaf Hussain (2012). The Islamization of Kashmir: A Study of Muslim Missionaries. Kashmir, India: Gulshan Books. ISBN 9788183391467.