Shah Nuri Bengali

[2] Shah Nuri was born into a Bengali Muslim family from the village of Babupura in Dhaka, the capital of Mughal Bengal.

As his grandfather was a murid (disciple) of the Punjabi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi, they belonged to the Mujaddidiyah suborder of the Naqshbandi Sufi order.

[6] He was educated in the city's madrasa, which was founded by Bengal's governor Shaista Khan in Pathartali Katra, four miles away from Maghbazar.

[11] The book was focused on tasawwuf, but also contained biographies of contemporary Sufis, such as a list of the murids of the Babupura Khanqah.

[3] He had four sons, all of whom died in their childhood except the fourth; Abul Wafa Shah Muhammadi (d. 1835), who succeeded him as the Gaddi nasheen of Maghbazar Khanqah.