Mujaddid Alif Thani

Ahmad Sirhindi
Born	26 June 1564 Sirhind, Punjab region, Mughal Empire
Died	10 December 1624 (aged 60)
Era	Mughal India
Main interests	Islamic Law, Islamic philosophy
Notable ideas	Evolution of Islamic philosophy, application of Islamic law

Ahmad al-Fārūqī al-Sirhindī (1564–1624) was an Indian Islamic scholar, a Hanafi jurist, and a prominent member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order. He has been described as the Mujaddid Alf saānī, meaning the "reviver of the second millennium", for his work in rejuvenating Islam and opposing the dissident opinions prevalent in the time of Mughal Emperor Akbar. While early South Asian scholarship credited him for contributing to conservative trends in Indian Islam, more recent works, notably by ter Haar, Friedman, and Buehler, have pointed to Sirhindi's significant contributions to Sufi epistemology and practices.

Most of the Naqshbandī suborders today, such as the Mujaddidī, Khālidī, Saifī, Tāhirī, Qasimiya and Haqqānī sub-orders, trace their spiritual lineage through Sirhindi.

Sirhindi's shrine, known as Rauza Sharif, is located in Sirhind, Punjab, India.

Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi was born on Friday 14 June 1564 in the village of Sirhind. He received most of his early education from his father, Shaykh 'Abd al-Ahad, his brother, Shaykh Muhammad Sadiq and from Shaykh Muhammad Tahir al-Lahuri. He also memorised the Qur'an. He then studied in Sialkot, in modern-day Pakistan, which had become an intellectual centre under the Kashmir-born scholar Maulana Kamaluddin. There he learned logic, philosophy and theology and read advanced texts of tafsir and hadith under another scholar from Kashmir, Yaqub Sarfi (1521-1595), who was a sheikh of the Hamadaniyya Silsilla Sayyid Sadaat Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani order). Qazi Bahlol Badakhshani taught him jurisprudence, prophet Muhammad's biography and history.

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