Jamal al-Din Saoji

Jamal al-Din Saoji
سيد جمال مجرد ساوجى
Personal life
Born
Savah (Sawah), near Tehran, Persia
Diedc. 1232–1233 CE
Damietta, Egypt
Resting placeDamietta
RegionPersia, Syria, Egypt
Religious life
ReligionIslam
OrderQalandariyya
Senior posting
Disciples
  • Muhammad Balkhi, Abu Bakr Isfahani, Jalal Darguzini
Influenced

Jamal al-Din Saoji (Persian: جمال الدین ساوجى‎), also known as Jamaluddin Sawochi or Jamaluddin Savi, (d. c. 1232–33 CE) was a Persian Sufi saint and ascetic, widely recognized as the founder and master of the Qalandariyya order. He is remembered for his radical renunciation of worldly life, his symbolic practices of self-denial, and for shaping the Qalandari movement that later spread across the Middle East, South Asia, and Anatolia. He is also revered as a grand spiritual master of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar of Sehwan Sharif (Pakistan) through his disciple Hazrat Ibrahim Mujarrad.