{{Infobox religious biography | name = Shaikh Daud Bandagi Kirmani | image = Shaikh_Daud_Bandagi_Kirmani.jpg | alt = Early 17th-century miniature of Daud Bandagi Kirmani | caption = Early 17th-century miniature of Daud Bandagi Kirmani | birth_date = {{circa|1513}} <!-- c. 1513; RS vary/are scarce --> | death_date = 1575<ref>{{cite book |last=Hanif |first=N. |title=Biographical Encyclopedia of Sufis (South Asia) |publisher=Pentagon Press |year=2000 |url=https://archive.org/download/AkhbqarulAkhyaar/Biographical%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Sufis%28South%20Asia%29_text.pdf |language=ur }}</ref> | death_place = [[Shergarh, Punjab|Shergarh]], [[Okara District]], [[Punjab, Pakistan]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Khalid |first=Haroon |title=The naked ascetics: Pakistan's Sufi dervishes, Digambar Jain monks and Udasi sadhus |work=Dawn |date=22 December 2017 |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1378060 }}</ref> | resting_place = Tomb at Shergarh, Okara District, Punjab, Pakistan<ref>{{cite news |last=Khalid |first=Haroon |title=The naked ascetics: Pakistan's Sufi dervishes, Digambar Jain monks and Udasi sadhus |work=Dawn |date=22 December 2017 |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1378060 }}</ref> | religion = Islam | denomination = Sunni | order = [[Qadiriyya]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Hanif |first=N. |title=Biographical Encyclopedia of Sufis (South Asia) |publisher=Pentagon Press |year=2000 |url=https://archive.org/download/AkhbqarulAkhyaar/Biographical%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Sufis%28South%20Asia%29_text.pdf |language=ur }}</ref> | era = 16th century }}
'''Syed Muhammad Ibrahim bin Syed Fatehullah Kirmani''' 1513-1575C.E. (AH 919–982), more popularly known as '''Shaikh Daud Bandagi Kirmani''' was a 16th-century saint of the [[Qadiri]] order.<ref name="badaoni-book-volume1" />
== His mausoleum == {{unreferenced section|date=November 2020}} [[Image:Bandagi2.jpg|thumb|left|Shrine of Daud Bandagi Kirmani]] His mausoleum in [[Shergarh, Punjab]], was completed in 1580 CE. The interior of the octagonal shrine is decorated with intricate floral and geometric frescoes. On each of the eight interior lower alcoves are Persian couplets by Shah Abul Muali extolling Daud. The grave is in an enclosure in the center of the shrine with the graves of six of his lineal descendants on either side. The exterior of the shrine has panels of intricate stucco tracery on all sides. The shrine, is under the care of the Auqaf Department and the Archeology Department of the Government of Punjab, Pakistan, which conducted extensive restoration work in the 1980s, mainly on the preservation of the frescoes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Khalid |first=Haroon |date=2015-11-08 |title=The naked ascetics: Pakistan's Sufi dervishes, Digambar Jain monks and Udasi sadhus |url=http://scroll.in/article/767291/the-naked-ascetics-pakistans-sufi-dervishes-digambar-jain-monks-and-udasi-sadhus |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Khalid |first=Haroon |date=2017-12-22 |title=The naked ascetics: Pakistan's Sufi dervishes, Digambar Jain monks and Udasi sadhus |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1378207 |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=DAWN.COM |language=en}}</ref>
=== Gallery ===
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== Further reading == *‘Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh’, Vol II and III, by Abdul Qadir bin Mulik Shah Al-Badaoni (Translated into English by R.A Ranking in 1894). *‘Tazkara’ by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. *‘Maqamat-e-Daudi’ by Abul Baqi Bin Jan Mohammad, original in Persian circa AD 1646. (Translated into Urdu by Dr. Khwaja Hameed Yazdani. Publisher S.M Mohsin). *'Akhbaar-Ul-Akhiyaar' by Shaikh Abdul Haq Muhaddis Dehlavi. ( Urdu translation by Professor Ghulam Rasool Mehr). Maktaba Usmania. Hyderabad.A.P. India. * 'Safinat-ul-Auliya' by [[Dara Shikoh]].
==References==
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<ref name="badaoni-book-volume1">{{cite web | title=Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh Vol I | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFNOAAAAYAAJ&q=inauthor%3A%22ʻAbd%20al-Qādir%20ibn%20Mulūk%20Shāh%20Badāʼūnī%22 | author= Abd Al-Qadir Badaoni | publisher= Asiatic Society of Bengal | volume = 1 | language= English | date=1898}}</ref>
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== External links == * Article on Shergarh: [http://sajshirazi.blogspot.com/2006/09/shifting-sher-garh.html]{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh can be downloaded from: [http://persian.packhum.org/persian/] * Shergarh on the map: [http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8130228] {{Authority Control}}
[[Category:Sufi saints]] [[Category:1513 births]] [[Category:1575 deaths]]