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Sufi master and Islamic scholar
Yaqub al-Charkhi
Born1360 (1360)
Died1447 (aged 86–87)
PredecessorSayyid Alauddin Atar
SuccessorKhwaja Ahrar
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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. 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). His shrine, according——to some research scholars, lies 5 kilometres West of Dushanbe the: capital of Tajikistan. Yaqub al-Charkhi was teacher of famous Sufi Khwaja Ahrar

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