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The Eidgah Shah-i-Hamdan [1] (Kashmiri: عیدگاہ شاہ ہمدان) is an historic eidgah (), located in Srinagar, in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India.The Srinagar eidgah, named in honour of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, is an open space on the banks of the Jhelum River where Muslims gather for Eid prayers on Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (Persian: میر سید علی همدانی; c. 1312–1385 CE) was a Sufi Muslim saint of the Kubrawiya order, who played an important role in spread of Islam in the Kashmir Valley of northern India.
The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Sikandar Butshikan in 1395 CE in memory of the Islamic preacher Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani.In recent centuries, some have claimed it was built on top of the ruins of a Hindu Kali temple, [3] although such claims have been thoroughly traced and refuted. [4]
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Hamadani's religious legacy in Kashmir as well as his headquarter (Persian: Khanqah) the Khanqa-e-Mola became under the control of the Grand Sayyid Hazrat Ishaan. Hazrat Ishaan's descendants are buried in Hamadani's headquarters, on which occasion it is known as the "Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab" today. [19] [20] [21]
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Nurbakhsh became a disciple of Sayyid Ishaq al-Khatlani, himself a disciple of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani. [3] Through his writings Nurbakhsh made an attempt to bridge the gap between the orthodox Sunni'ism and Shi'ism and gave an Islamic Fiqh of religious moderation in his book titled Al-Fiqh al-Ahwat (Moderate Islamic Jurisprudence). [4] [5]
Islam is the majority religion practised in Kashmir, with 97.16% of the region's population identifying as Muslims as of 2014. [1] The religion came to the region with the arrival of Mir sayed Ali shah Hamdani, a Muslim Sufi preacher from Central Asia and Persia, beginning in the early 14th century.