Bilgrām — in English Bilgram — is a town in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India, the place of death of Sayyid ʿUmar Bā Shaybān in 1656. Bā Shaybān — the shaikh of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī and of Shaikh Yūsuf al-Makassar in the Rifāʿiyya — had lived chiefly at Bījāpūr under the protection of the ruler Muḥammad ʿĀdilshāh, but died at Bilgrām. The place of his death is recorded by al-Muḥibbī in Khulāṣat al-athār III, p. 214 ff., cited by Voorhoeve in the introduction to the 1955 edition of Raniri’s two Malay treatises.
Significance
Bilgrām is the place of death of Sayyid ʿUmar Bā Shaybān — the shaikh of Raniri and of Shaikh Yūsuf al-Makassar — and is the final chronological peg of the Gujarati-Ḥadramī Sufi network from which the orthodox reaction of Acheh drew its principal Malay-Indonesian agents. The death of Bā Shaybān in 1656 removes the last of the spiritual masters who had formed Raniri in the Rifāʿiyya. The place of his death at Bilgrām — a town of present-day Uttar Pradesh — is recorded by al-Muḥibbī, and is the principal authority for the date of his death.
See Also
- Bijapur
- Muhammad al-Addars
- P. Voorhoeve
- Raniri
- Rifa’iyah order
- Sajjid Abu Hafs Umar Ba Sjaiban
- Yusuf Makasar
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Inleiding §1 (“De auteur”), pp. 5–6, citing al-Muḥibbī, Khulāṣat al-athār III, p. 214 ff.
Bilgrām — in English Bilgram — is a town in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India, the place of death of Sayyid ʿUmar Bā Shaybān in 1656. Bā Shaybān — the shaikh of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī and of Shaikh Yūsuf al-Makassar in the Rifāʿiyya — had lived chiefly at Bījāpūr under the protection of the ruler Muḥammad ʿĀdilshāh, but died at Bilgrām. The place of his death is recorded by al-Muḥibbī in Khulāṣat al-athār III, p. 214 ff., cited by Voorhoeve in the introduction to the 1955 edition of Raniri’s two Malay treatises.
Significance
Bilgrām is the place of death of Sayyid ʿUmar Bā Shaybān — the shaikh of Raniri and of Shaikh Yūsuf al-Makassar — and is the final chronological peg of the Gujarati-Ḥadramī Sufi network from which the orthodox reaction of Acheh drew its principal Malay-Indonesian agents. The death of Bā Shaybān in 1656 removes the last of the spiritual masters who had formed Raniri in the Rifāʿiyya. The place of his death at Bilgrām — a town of present-day Uttar Pradesh — is recorded by al-Muḥibbī, and is the principal authority for the date of his death.
See Also
- Bijapur
- Muhammad al-Addars
- P. Voorhoeve
- Raniri
- Rifa’iyah order
- Sajjid Abu Hafs Umar Ba Sjaiban
- Yusuf Makasar
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Inleiding §1 (“De auteur”), pp. 5–6, citing al-Muḥibbī, Khulāṣat al-athār III, p. 214 ff.