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Bahauddin Zakariya

Baha-ud-Din Zakariya
بہاؤالدین زکریا
بہاءُ الدین زکریا
Personal life
Born1161 or 1182
Kut Karur, Punjab (present-day Pakistan)
Died21 December 1262
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni, specifically the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order
Muslim leader
Based inMultan, Punjab
Period in office12th/13th century
PredecessorShihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi
SuccessorVarious, including Lal Shahbaz Qalander, Fakhr ud din Iraqi, Jalaluddin Rumi

Baha-ud-din Zakariya[a] (Punjabi: بہاؤالدین زکریا; Persian: بہاءُ الدین زکریا; c.1170 – 1262), also known as Baha-ul-Haq, was a Punjabi Sunni[1] Muslim scholar, saint and poet who established the Suhrawardiyya order of Baghdad in medieval South Asia, later becoming one of the most influential spiritual leaders of his era.[2]


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  1. ^ Qamar al-huda (8 August 2005). Striving for Divine union: The Spiritual exercises of the Suhrawardi Sufis. Routledge Sufi. ISBN 0700716874.
  2. ^ Karīma, Ānoẏārula (1980). The Bauls of Bangladesh: A Study of an Obscure Religious Cult. Lalan Academy.

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