Ali al-Hujwiri
Persian Muslim scholar and mystic (c. 1009–1072/77)
Ali al-Hujwiri
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman al-Jullabi al-Hujwiri (Persian: ابو الحسن علی بن عثمان الجلابی الھجویری, romanized: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Jullābī al-Hujwīrī; c. 1009-1072/77), better known as Data Sahib (Persian: داتا صاحب, romanized: Dātā Ṣaḥib) and Ali Hujwiri, was a Islamic scholar and mystic who authored Kashf al-Mahjub, the earliest treatise on Sufism in the Persian language. Born in the Ghaznavid Empire, Hujwiri is believed to have contributed "significantly" to the spread of Islam in South Asia through his preaching. Hujwiri is regarded as the patron saint of Lahore, Pakistan by the Sufis of the area and his tomb-shrine, known as the Data Darbar, is one of the most frequented shrines in South Asia. Currently, it is Pakistan's largest shrine "in numbers of annual visitors and in the size of the shrine complex," and, having been nationalized in 1960, is managed today by the Department of Awqaf and Religious Affairs of the Punjab. The mystic himself remains a "household name...
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