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{{Infobox religious biography
| name = Shah e Alam
| religion = [[Islam]]
| denomination = specifically the [[Suhrawardiyya]] of Sufism
| alias = "Shahenshah e Gujarat"
| location = [[Ahmedabad]]
| flourished = Late 13th century and early 14th century
| death_date = 20 [[Jumada al-Thani|Jumada al akhira]] 880 Hijri/21 October 1475 AD (aged 60)
| resting_place = Shah-e-Alam's Roza
| father = Qutub e Alam
| mother = Bibi Aminah
| predecessor = Shaikh Ahmed Ganj Bakhsh, Qutub e Alam, Barakullah Chishti
| successor = Makhdoom Ahmed Miyan
}}

'''Shah e Alam is''' born on 17 Dhul Qidah 817 Hijri/18 January 1415 AD at Patan city in Gujarat, India. He is a [[Muslim]] religious teacher and great Wali residing in [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]] during the [[Mughal era]].

==Life==
Syed Sirajuddin Muhammad, the son and successor of Syed Burhanuddin Qutub-e-Alam, came to be called by the title of Shah-e-Alam, king of the world. His father Sheikh Burhanuddin, also known as Qutub-e-Alam, was the grandson of Syed Makhdoom [[Jahaniyan Jahangasht|Jehaniya Jehan Gasht]].<ref>Marat-e-Jalali (مرآت جلالی) by Syed Khalil Ahmed Bukhari Hassaini , First Edition 1918, [[Allahabad]], Second Edition 1999, [[Karachi]].</ref> He arrived in Gujarat during the beginning of the fifteenth century during rule of [[Ahmed Shah I]], settling on the outskirts of Ahmedabad of Gujarat

Following the Suharwardi tradition, the family established close contact with the [[Gujarat Sultanate]] and later with Mughal rulers and played an active role in the social and political life of the city.

Shah e Alam, the eleventh among twelve sons, assisted his father, Qutub-e-Alam. An interesting miracle happened one day; while bathing in a water body, his feet hit upon something. The Shaikh remarked that he didn’t know whether the object was stone, iron or wood. Miraculously, the object turned into a mixture of the three materials and became a venerated relic.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}

Shah Alam was related to the royal houses of Sindh and Gujarat through marriage to Bibi Marqi, the second daughter of Jam Saheb of [[Sindh]].

He spent six days a week in solitary meditation and received visitors only on Fridays, when open discussions were held. An account of the Friday gatherings was compiled in a seven volume manual titled, 'Kunuz-e-Muhammadi’ by Shaykh Farid bin Daulat Shah Jilwani. The account is not traceable today.

He died on 20 Jumada al akhira 880 Hijri/1475 AD. The mausoleum was built by Taj Kham Narpali and now known as [[Shah-e-Alam's Roza]].<ref name="Yagnik2011">{{cite book|author=Achyut Yagnik|title=Ahmedabad: From Royal city to Megacity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivMAUx6Hdl8C&pg=PT35|date=2 February 2011|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-81-8475-473-5|page=35}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Shah-e-Alam's Roza]], the mausoleum and the mosque complex dedicated to him
* [[Qutub-e-Alam's Mosque]] at Vatva

==Notes==
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[[Category:History of Ahmedabad]]
[[Category:Indian Sufi saints]]
[[Category:Year of birth unknown]]
[[Category:14th-century deaths]]
[[Category:Dargahs in India]]

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