What is Shah Jalal?
[[File:Shrine of Hazrat Shah Jalal Sylhet Bangladesh 39.JPG|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Shrine of Hazrat Shah Jalal, Sylhet, Bangladesh}}]] '''Hazrat Shah Jalal''' ({{lang-ar|شيخ المشايخ}}, {{lang-bn|শাহ জালাল}}, full name: '''Shāh Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Mujarrad al-Turk al Naqshbandi''') is a celebrated [[Sufi Muslim]] figure in [[Bengal]]. Jalal's name is associated with the Muslim movement into [[northeast]]ern Bengal. Also he is associated with the spread of [[Islam in Bangladesh]] through [[Sufism]]. Jalal was originally a [[Turkestan]]i.<ref>N. Hanif, ''Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis: South Asia'' (München: Gräfe und Unzer, 1973), p. 165</ref> He arrived at Sylhet in 1303.<ref> Mikey Leung; Belinda Meggitt, ''Bangladesh'' (Chalfont St. Peter: Bradt Travel Guides, 2012), p. 190</ref> This is according to a [[wikt:tablet|tablet]] [[wikt:inscription|inscription]] found in Amber Khana, Sylhet.<ref>Ahmed, Shamsuddin, ''Inscription of Bengal'', Vol. iv (Dhaka, 1960), p. 25</ref> Dhaka renamed Zia International Airport to Hazrat [[Shahjalal International Airport]]. Dhaka and Sylhet had named a University known as Hazrat Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. The Mazarin is located at Chittagong. == References == {{reflist}} {{commons}} [[Category:History of India]] [[Category:Sufis]] [[Category:People from Sylhet Division]] [[Category:14th-century people]] {{asia-stub}}