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Aḥmad Kāsānī

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Aḥmad Khwājagī b. Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Kāsānī, revered as the Makhdūm-i Aʿẓam, was a Ṣūfī saint of the Naqshbandiyya. He was born in the Farghāna valley and became a disciple of Khwāja Aḥrār in Tāshkand. He created a Ṣūfī hostel in Bukhārā and died in his estate in Dahbīd.

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Aḥmad Khwājagī b. Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Kāsānī, revered as the Makhdūm-i Aʿẓam, was a Ṣūfī saint of the Naqshbandiyya. He was born in the Farghāna valley and became a disciple of Khwāja Aḥrār in Tāshkand. He created a Ṣūfī hostel in Bukhārā and died in his estate in Dahbīd. His descendants dominated the history of Eastern Turkistān in the 17th-18th centuries. Among them was Āfāq Khwāja, who preached in Kāshghar.

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Lived 1461 to 1542 · aged 81
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