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{{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}}{{Infobox religious biography
| name = Wajihuddin Alvi
| image =
| image_caption =
| birth_date = 1490s
| birth_place = [[Champaner]], [[Gujarat]]
| death_date = {{death year and age|1580|1490}}
| death_place = [[Ahmedabad]]
| resting_place = [[Wajihuddin's Tomb]]
| teacher = [[Muhammad Ghawth]]
| successor = [[Hashim Peer Dastagir|Hashim Pir Dastagir]]
| students = [[Hashim Peer Dastagir|Hashim Pir Dastagir]]<br>[[Usman Bengali]]<br>[[Yusuf Bengali]]
}}
{{Sufism}}
'''Shah Wajihuddin Alvi Gujarati''' ({{lang-fa|{{Nastaliq|شاه وجیه الدین علوی گجراتی}}}}), also known the [[epithet]] '''Haider Ali Saani''' ({{lang-fa|{{Nastaliq|حیدر علی ثانی}}}}), was an Islamic scholar and [[Sufi]] in the [[Shattari]] tradition.

==Life==
Shah Wajihudeen Alvi Hussaini Shattari (Haider Ali Saani) 'Ali the second' was born in [[Champaner]], [[Gujarat]] in the last decade of the 15th century. He later moved to [[Ahmedabad]] where he received an education in Islamic studies. He taught Quranic studies, Islamic law, mathematics and logic for sixty-five years. He was initially a follower of the [[Qadiri]] Sufi tradition, but upon meeting [[Muhammad Ghawth|Mohammed Ghaus Gwaliori]] he joined the [[Shattari]] Sufi tradition. Under his leadership, Ahmedabad became a major centre of Islamic studies, attracting students from all over India. Many of his disciples became prominent figures, including Syed Sibghatallah al-Barwaji, who moved to [[Medina]] and established the Shattari tradition in Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Qadir, who settled in [[Ujjain]], and Sheikh Abu Turab, who moved to [[Lahore]]. He also had students from [[Bengal]] such as [[Usman Bengali|Usman]] and [[Yusuf Bengali|Yusuf]], who contributed to Islamic education in medieval Hindustan.<ref name=kum>{{cite book|language=ar|title=كتاب البدور المضية في تراجم الحنفية|author=al-Kumillai, Muhammad Hifzur Rahman|publisher=Dar al-Salih|location=[[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]|year=2018|chapter=الشيخ الفاضل عثمان بن أبي عثمان البنغالي|trans-chapter=The honourable Shaykh ʿUthmān bin Abī ʿUthmān al-Bangālī}}</ref><ref name=gulzar>{{cite book|title=Gulzar-e-Abrar|script-chapter=ur:(۶۰۸) یاد شیخ یوسف بنگالی رحمہ اللہ|pages=358–359|language=ur|url=https://sufinama.org/ebooks/gulzar-e-abrar-mohammad-ghausi-shattari-mandvi-ebooks}}</ref> Wajihuddin wrote more than 200 books on various subjects.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

According to some sources, [[Hashim Peer Dastagir|Sayyadna Hashim Peer Dastagir]] was his nephew and Khalifa. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Shattari silsila|url=https://shattariyah.blogspot.com/|access-date=2021-06-02|language=en}}</ref>

==Works==
Wajihuddin Alvi is reported to have written books in [[Arabic and Persian]]<ref name="Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli">{{cite book|author1=Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli|author2=Zirikli|title=Al-Alam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxvPXBZQGaMC|year=2002|publisher= Islam Kotob|page=110}}</ref>

*Hashiya Alvi Ala Tafsir Baydawi [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zy0TEAAAQBAJ حاشية العلوي على تفسير البيضاوي]

*Sharh Nuzhat Al-Nazar [https://books.google.com/books?id=x79KDwAAQBAJ&q=%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%AD+%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%A9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%B1+ شرح نزهة النظر للكجراتي مع نخبة الفكر للعسقلاني]

*Hashiya Alvi ala Sharh al-Jami https://archive.org/details/hashiya-alvi-ala-sharh-al-jami

*[https://archive.org/details/RisalaQushjiSharhQushji%20Risala%20Qushji%20Sharh%20Qushji Risala Qushji Sharh Qushji]

*Aidah Haqiqat Sharh Haqiqat Muhamadi [https://archive.org/details/SharhHaqiqatIMuhammadi ايضاح حقيقت شرح حقيقت محمدي ]

==Death and burial==
[[File:Wajihuddin Tomb.jpg|thumb|[[Wajihuddin's Tomb]] in Ahmedabad]]
He died in 1580 CE.<ref name="HāshimīValī1986">{{cite book|author1=Nūrulḥasan Hāshimī|author2=Valī|title=Wali|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEQuAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|page=13}}</ref> He is buried in a [[Wajihuddin's Tomb|memorial tomb]] in Khanpur, Ahmedabad, that was built by his disciple [[Shaikh Farid Bukhari|Syed Murtuza Khan Bukhari]], the eleventh (1606–1609) governor of Ahmedabad during the reign of [[Jahangir]].<ref name="SufiOrdersOfIslam">{{cite book | last = Trimingham | first = John Spencer and Voll, John O. | title = The Sufi orders in Islam | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] USA | year = 1998 | pages = 97–98 | isbn = 0-19-512058-2}}</ref><ref name="Yagnik2011">{{cite book|author=Achyut Yagnik|title=Ahmedabad: From Royal city to Megacity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivMAUx6Hdl8C&pg=PT42|date=2 February 2011|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-81-8475-473-5|page=42}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad|year=1879|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3354|quote=dastur khan mosque.|publisher=Government Central Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3354/page/n284 278]}}</ref>

==References ==
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[[Category:Indian Sufi saints]]
[[Category:Sufi writers]]
[[Category:Writers from Ahmedabad]]
[[Category:15th-century Indian scholars]]
[[Category:Indian Muslim scholars of Islam]]
[[Category:Scholars from Gujarat]]
[[Category:1580 deaths]]

==Further reading==
*[https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/tazkiratul-wajeeh-syed-husaini-peer-alvi-ebooks tazkiratul wajeeh by Syed Husaini Peer Alvi]
*[https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/shah-wajeehuddin-alvi-gujrati-ahwal-o-aasar-abdur-rahman-parwaz-islahi-ebooks Shah Wajeehuddin Alvi Gujrati Ahwal -o- Aasar by Abdur Rahman Parwaz Islahi]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=cfEZEAAAQBAJ&q=%D8%AE%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%A9+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87 Khulasa-tul Wajih by Ahmed bin Muhammad Al-Farouqi]
*[https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/57208 Life and works of Sheikh Wajihuddin Alavi Gujrati by Mohammad Khalid]

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