Yaqub al-Charkhi | |
Birth Place: | Logar, Afghanistan |
Death Place: | Dushanbe, Tajikistan |
Predecessor: | Sayyid Alauddin Atar |
Successor: | Khwaja Ahrar |
Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUthmān ibn Maḥmūd al-Charkhī (Persian: یعقوب بن عثمان بن محمود چرخی) was a Naqshbandi Sufi pir and student of Khwaja Sayyid Alauddin Atar.[1] Yaqub Charkhi was born in 762, in a village called Charkh in Logar, Afghanistan AH and died in 851. He was a Sufi master and also a reputed Islamic scholar.
He was born around 762 AH (1360/61) and died on Saturday 5 Safar 851 AH (22 April 1447).[2] His shrine, according to some research scholars, lies 5 kilometres West of Dushanbe the capital of Tajikistan.[3] [4] Yaqub al-Charkhi was teacher of famous Sufi Khwaja Ahrar[1]