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Sufi mystic of medieval India

Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri, popularly known as Makhdoom-ul-Mulk Bihari^[2] and Makhdoom-e-Jahan^[3] (–), was a 13th-century Sufimystic and saint active in medieval Bihar.^[4]

He was a maternal grandson of Pir Jagjot(Sayyid Shihab Ad-Din Al-Isma'ili Suhrawardi) who was the first Suhrawardi saint to come into India as well as the direct student of the famous Shihab Ad-Din Abu Hafs 'Umar Suhrawardi and of Najm Ad-Din Kubra, the founder of the Kubrawiyya Order.^[5][6]

Early life

Sharafuddin Ahmad Yahya Maneri was born in Maner, a village near Patna in Bihar circa August to Kamaluddin Yahya Maneri bin Shaikh Israil Maneri, a Sufi saint of Suhrawardiyya order and Bibi Raziya alias Badi Bua bint Syed Shahabuddin Suhrawardi Peer Jagjot .^[7]

His maternal grandfather Peer Jagjot, who is buried at Kachchi Dargah, near the Ganges in Patna district, was also a reve