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{{Infobox family
|name = Qazi family of Lakhnauti
|native_name = লখনৌতির কাজী খান্দান
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|country = [[Bengal Sultanate|Bengal]]
|region = [[Gauḍa (city)|Lakhnauti]]
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|etymology = [[Qadi]]
|origin = [[Balkh]]
|founded = [[15th century]]
|founder = [[Taj ad-Din an-Nahwi]]
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|members = [[Shah Manjhan]]
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| nisba = al-Lakhnawtawī<br>اللكهنوتوي}}
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The '''Qazi family of Lakhnauti''' ({{langx|bn|লখনৌতির কাজী খান্দান}}) was a medieval [[Bengali Muslim]] family who lived in the royal city of [[Gauḍa (city)|Lakhnauti]] in the [[Bengal Sultanate]].<ref>{{cite book|page=234|title=Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis: South Asia|author=Hanif, N.|year=2000|publisher=Prabhat Kumar Sharma|location=[[India]]|isbn=9788176250870}}</ref> The family was founded by Taj ad-Din an-Nahwi in the 15th century, and has produced numerous influential judges and scholars. The descendants of Shah Manjhan later moved to Gujarat and neighbouring states.<ref>{{cite web|language=ar|url=https://tarajm.com/people/92941|title=منجهن بن عبد الله بن خير الدين اللكهنوتوي|access-date=27 July 2022|website=Tarajm|archive-date=22 December 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241222135353/https://tarajm.com/people/92941|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Members==
[[File:DG 85 - 09 SAINT SHEKH NIAMOT ULLAH MOSQUE 15 CENTURY CHANPAI NAWAB GONJ IMG 3196.jpg|thumb|The historic city of [[Gauḍa (city)|Lakhnauti]], now in present-day [[Chapai Nawabganj District|Nawabganj]], [[Bangladesh]], was the royal capital of the [[Sultanate of Bengal]] and experienced an influx of scholars during this period.<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Lakhnauti|author=Akhtaruzzaman, Muhammad}}</ref>]]
The Qazi family are descended from Taj ad-Din an-Nahwi, who had [[Arab]] lineage from his ancestor, Shaykh Mahmud [[Quraysh|al-Qurashi]] al-Ishqi Randposh. Prior to settling in Lakhnauti, the family was based in [[Balkh]] in present-day [[Afghanistan]]. In Bengal, it is said that they became the spiritual successors of the family of [[Nur Qutb Alam]] of the [[Chishti Order]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: Twelfth to the Mid-eighteenth Century|page=211|chapter=Sufi Thought|year=2011|author=Ahmed, Farooqui Salma|isbn=9788131732021|publisher=[[Pearson PLC|Pearson India Education Services]]}}</ref>

===Taj ad-Din an-Nahwi===
'''Tāj ad-Dīn al-Naḥwī al-Balkhī al-Lakhnawtawī''' was a 15th-century [[Islamic scholar]], ''[[qadi]]'' and [[grammar]]ian of the [[Arabic language]]. According to [[Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi]], he was one of the leading scholars in the fields of grammar and Arabic language during his time.{{sfnp|al-Lucknawi|1999|p=241}} He was born into a [[Sunni Muslim]] family in [[Balkh]], [[Afghanistan]], then part of the [[Timurid Empire]], where he was raised. He was famed by the [[epithet]] '''al-naḥwī''' ('the grammarian') and '''khulāṣah al-ʿulamāʾ''' ('epitome of the [[ulama]]'),<ref>{{cite thesis|title=Socio-cultural history of Subah of Allahabad under the Mughals|page=196|author=Minhaj, Mohammad Zafar|year=2008|publisher=[[Aligarh Muslim University]]}}</ref> and had a famous [[khanqah]] in Balkh.<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Sufism in India: From sixteenth century to modern century|pages=434–435|author=Rizvi, Saiyid Athar Abbas|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal|year=1978|isbn=9788121500388}}</ref> It is said that he left Balkh, after hearing of the scholarly patronage of Sultan [[Jaunpur Sultanate|Ibrahim Shah Sharqi]] (r. 1402–1440). However, Taj ad-Din ended up settling in the neighbouring [[Sultanate of Bengal]] instead. He benefitted many students in [[Gauḍa (city)|Lakhnauti]] and the family established themselves there.

===Shah Manjhan===
'''Shah Manjhan al-Lakhnawtawī''' (d. [[Rabi' al-Awwal]] 1001 [[Islamic calendar|AH]] / 1592 CE) was a prominent 16th-century [[Sufi saint]] and leading figure of the [[Shattari|Shattari Order]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Muslim Revivalist Movements in Northern India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries|page=64|author=Rizvi, Saiyid Athar Abbas|publisher=[[Agra University]]|date=1965}}</ref> He was the son of Abdullah, son of Khayr ad-Dīn al-Lakhnawtawī, who was a direct descendant of Taj ad-Din an-Nahwi. From his mother's side, Shah Manjhan was a descendant of Qadi Samāʾ ad-Din of [[Delhi]]. Manjhan was born and raised in Lakhnauti, and initially studied under Shaykh Ahmadi. He then became a ''[[murid]]'' of Shaykh Taj ad-Din al-Husayni al-Bukhari for a long time. He dedicated much of his time in Lakhnauti towards teaching the [[Islamic sciences]].{{sfnp|al-Lucknawi|1999|p=651-652}} Taj ad-Din al-Bukhari eventually instructed Manjhan to become a disciple of [[Muhammad Ghawth]], the Sufi master of the [[Shattari|Shattari Order]] in [[Gujarat]]. After the Conquest of [[Malwa]] by [[Sher Shah Suri]], Manjhan moved there as he was appointed as the religious administrator of the newly conquered fort-town of [[Raisen]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Mughals and the Sufis: Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500–1750|author=Alam, Muzaffar|isbn=9781438484907|year=2021|publisher=[[State University of New York Press]]}}</ref> Due to political instability, he later relocated to [[Sarangpur, Madhya Pradesh|Sarangpur]], settling in the village of Ashnah, where he wrote several works on the Islamic sciences and was received by Emperor [[Akbar]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biography of Shah Mohammed Ghouse Gwaliori|author=Abdul Hafeez, Mohammed|editor=Anwar, Hafeez|year=2020|pages=159–160}}</ref> His son, Uthman, was a leading scholar in [[Islamic jurisprudence]] and Arabic language.{{sfnp|al-Lucknawi|1999|p=586}}

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|language=ar|title=Nuzhat al-khawatir|last=al-Lucknawi|first=Abd al-Hayy|author-link=Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi|publisher=Dar Ibn Hazm|location=[[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]]|year=1999}}

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[[Category:People from Chapai Nawabganj District]]
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