Shah Siddiq
A modest mazar for Shah Siddiq in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Hazrat Shah Siddiq (R) (also rendered Siddik, Siddiky, Siddiqi, Siddiquee) was a 14th-century Sufi saint and one of the 360 auliyas or followers who accompanied Hazrat Shah Jalal in his conquest of Sylhet, Bangladesh from Turkey. He traces his descent from Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq (R), the first caliph of Islam. Descendents of Shah Siddiq from Panchpara (in Bangladesh) carry the surname Siddiquee.
He lies buried in the Panchpara village (P.O. Usman Pur, P.S. Balaganj) of Sylhet, near the north eastern Indian state of Assam.
External links
- Karim, Abdul (2012). "Islam, Bengal". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- Eaton, Richard M. The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993.
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