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Ahmad Sirhindi, Renewer of the second millennium

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ScholarRenewer of the second millennium

Ahmad Sirhindiاحمد سرہندی

Approximate dateSirhind

A Naqshbandi scholar who called the Mughal elite back to the Sharia after Akbar's experiments.

When the emperor Akbar promoted a court cult blending faiths, Sirhindi insisted on the Sharia and the Sunnah through hundreds of letters to nobles. Jahangir jailed him for about a year at Gwalior, then released and honoured him.

What grew out of it?

His followers called him Mujaddid Alf Thani; his Mujaddidi branch of the Naqshbandiyya spread from India to the Ottoman lands.

Who else is linked?

Baha al-Din NaqshbandShah WaliullahAkbarJahangirMughal Empire

Who lived at the same time?

Ahmad al-MansurMehmed IIIMurad IIIAkbarIdris AloomaShah Abbas IPhilip III of SpainAhmed I

Source: history · Wikipedia

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