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Gesudaraz, Sayid Muhammad Husain Bandanawaz (1318-1421)
Poet. A mystic poet, preacher and *Shaykh of the *Sufi order of *Chishtiya who wrote in Farsi and Dakhini (South Indian *Urdu). He was a disciple of Shaykh Nasiruddin Chiraghi Dehlvi and went through all the stages of Sufi initiation. His pupils later compiled a collection of his utterances (malfuzat), entitled Jawami al-kalim. Gesudaraz was a major authority on *Sufism in the Bahmanid Sultanate, the Khalifa of the Chishtiya Order in Deccan, translator and commentator of Mashariq al Anwar by Raziuddin Hasan ibn Muhammad Saghani, and Al-Fiqh al Akbar by Abu Hanifa. He is believed to be the author of the first prose work in Urdu-Mira} al-Ashiqin ('The Ascension of the Lovers'). Gesudaraz's tomb in Gulbarga is an attraction for pilgrims.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: A.N. Shamatov, 'Classical Dakhini', Moscow, 1974 (in Russian); Hashimi Nasiruddin, 'Dakkan Mein Urdu, New Delhi, 1985.