#delhi #Delhitrilogy #turkmanshah #turkmandarwaza #sufi #sufism – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com A blog exploring India's Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or its rich multi plural multi cultural heritage via its adab, tehzeeb & tareekh Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:17:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://ranasafvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/image-7-75x75.jpg #delhi #Delhitrilogy #turkmanshah #turkmandarwaza #sufi #sufism – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com 32 32 179612229 The real dargah of Turkman Shah of Delhi https://ranasafvi.com/the-real-dargah-of-turkman-shah-of-delhi/ https://ranasafvi.com/the-real-dargah-of-turkman-shah-of-delhi/#respond Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:17:38 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/?p=38391
The shrine


The inscription

Dargah of Hazrat Shah Turkman Shamsul Arifeen Bayabani, famous as Shah Turkman

When one comes to Turkman Darwaza, there’s a small dargah adjacent to the Chandni Mahal Police Chowki. It is known as the dargah of Shah Turkman Bayabani, and people flock to it thinking it is the shrine of the famous thirteenth century saint.
Bashiruddin Ahmad Dehlvi writes that in 1919, there were some unknown graves near the Turkman Darwaza and the Police Chowki. After 1947, many changes took place in the walled city and this was one of them.
The actual shrine of Hazrat Shamsul Arifeen Bayabani, famous as Shah Turkman, is behind the Turkman Darwaza, in an area called Mohalla Qabristan. The saint is also known as Dada Pir.
Shah Turkman was one of the saints who accompanied the army of Sultan Qutbuddin Aibak. His name was Shams-ul Arifeen, and he became famous as Bayabani since he had given up material comforts and lived in seclusion in the forests, away from the cities, though his devotees always surrounded him. He was seventy-eight years old when Hazrat Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki became popular in Delhi.
He died on 19 February 1240, during the reign of Muizuddin Bahram Shah, Sultan Raziya’s successor. It is he who got the mazaar built.
The River Yamuna flowed near the area where he is buried. Though it has been renovated with green tiles, his grave is a simple one under the open sky.

from: “Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi” by Rana Safvi.


Turkman Darwaza

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Gallery Text

This folio is from a manuscript of the Falnama (Book of Omens), an illustrated divinatory book. It depicts ‘Ali, the first Shi’i imam, shown with a face veil and a flaming halo. He leads a camel with a coffin while two other men, his sons Hasan and Husain, watch from behind a hillside. According to Anatolian mystical thought, Imam ‘Ali not only predicted his own death but also told his two sons that when he died, a veiled man would carry his coffin away on a camel for burial. He cautioned them not to question the man. When ‘Ali’s prediction came true, Hasan and Husain could not resist asking the man’s identity and discovered that he was in fact their father, who was carrying his own body to the grave.

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