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مَخْدُوم جَهَانِيَان

Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Bukhārī, Makhdūm Jahāniyān Jahāngasht

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

707 – 785 AH / 1308 – 1384

his portrait is written, not drawn

The 'Master of mankind, the world-traveller', a Suhrawardī-Bukhārī sayyid of Uch whose journeys spanned the Muslim world.

stationWalī
born707 AH
returned785 AH

His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.