Sharfuddin Yahya Maneri

Makhdoom Shaykh Sharfuddin Ahmed Bin Yahya Maneri (1263-1381) popularly known as Makhdoom-e-Jahan or Makhdoom-ul-Mulk Bihar was an Islamic scholar, writer and Sufi saint. He was a follower of Firdausiyya order, an offshoot of Suhrawardiyya order of Sufism and was a spiritual student of Peer Shaykh Najeebuddin Firdausi. He was the great-grandson of Imam Muhammad Taj Faqih Hashmi, who reached India and defeated King of Maner along with Momin Arif, the first Muslim to reach Bihar.

Birth

Shaykh was born in the year 1263 in Maner, a small town near Patna to Shaykh Kamaluddin Yahya Maneri and daughter of Syed Shahabuddin Suhrawardi Peer Jagjot Balkhi, a sufi saint of Suhrawardiyya order and is buried at Kachchi Dargah, Patna.