What is Al-Hujwiri?
'''Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman ibn Ali al-Jullabi''', commonly known by the nisba '''al-Hujwiri''' and reverentially as '''Data Ganj Bakhsh''', was an 11th-century Islamic scholar and writer.<ref>http://www.madni.org/Data.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110013530/http://www.madni.org/Data.htm |date=2012-11-10 }} , Madni Foundation Site Retrieved 31 Oct 2012</ref> He made a significant contribution both to the spreading of [[Islam]] in [[South Asia]]. ==Life== Ali ibn Uthman ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah ibn Ali ibn Hasan ibn Zayd ibn Hasan ibn Ali is said to be his genealogy. He was born around 990 CE near [[Ghazni]], [[Afghanistan]] during the era of the Ghaznavid Kingdom and moved to [[Lahore]] in present-day [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Pakistan]] in 1077 CE. ==Work== His most famous written work is the ''Kashf al-Mahjub'', written in the [[Persian language]]. This is one of the earliest and most respected treatises of [[Sufism]] in Persian, and it debates Sufi doctrines of the past.<ref>http://www.maktabah.org/byauthor/377.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801225133/http://www.maktabah.org/byauthor/377.html |date=2012-08-01 }} Maktabah Islamic E-Library site, Retrieved 31 Oct 2012</ref> ==Legacy== Al-Hujwiri was interred in a famous mausoleum in Lahore, which is surrounded by a large marble courtyard, a mosque and other buildings. It is the most frequented of all the shrines in that old city, and indeed one of the most famous in Pakistan and the entire region. He is venerated as the Patron Saint of Lahore, where his name is a household word, and his mausoleum the object of pilgrimage from distant places, by people of all religious beliefs. Along with Khwaja [[Moin-ud-din Chishti|Moin-ud-Din Chishti]], [[Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar|Farid-ud-Din Ganj Shakar]], [[Lal Shahbaz Qalandar]] and [[Jalal-u-din Surkh Bukhari|Jalal-ud-Din Surkh Bukhari]], he is deemed in popular [[Punjab region|Punjabi]] literature and culture, as one of the ''Panj Peer'' (Five Sages/Holy Ones)