Shah Ali Baghdadi

Shāh ʿAlī al-Baghdādī (c. 1414–1480) was a 15th-century Muslim missionary and Sufi saint based in the Faridpur and Dhaka regions of Bengal.

This later migration is explained by the engulfment of Girdah as a result of Padma River erosion and Ali's desire to become initiated into the Chishti Order by Shah Bahar, a Sufi saint based in Dhaka.

[1] After practicing chilla in complete fasting for forty days, Shah Ali Baghdadi died in c. 1480 and was buried in Mirpur, Dhaka.

[1] The Bangladeshi Islamic scholar Nur Muhammad Azmi identifies Shah Ali's year of death as 913 AH (1507 AD).

[2] The chamber also holds a kurdi coat which was said to have belonged to Shah Madar, as well as Relics of Muhammad, Ali, Hasan, Husayn and Abdul Qadir Gilani.

Ancient inscription from the Girdah Dargah Mosque