Bande Nawaz

Khwaja Banda Nawaz Gesudaraz
Portrait of Bande Nawaz
Personal life
BornSyed Muhammad al-Hussaini
30 July 1321
Died1 November 1422 (aged 101)
Religious life
ReligionIslam
SectSufi Hanafi, Chishti Order
CreedMaturidi
Muslim leader
Influenced

Syed Muhammad ibn Yousuf al-Hussaini (30 July 1321 − 1 November 1422), commonly known as Bande Nawaz or Gisu Daraz, was a Hanafi Maturidi scholar and Sufi saint of the Chishti Order, from India.

Gisu Daraz was a disciple and then successor of Sufi saint Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi. When he moved to Daulatabad around 1400, owing to the attack of Timur on Delhi, he took the Chishti Order to South India. He finally settled down in Gulbarga, at the invitation of Bahmani Sultan, Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah.