Bulbul Shah

Bulbul Shah
Syed Sharf-Ud-Din Abdul Rehman Shah
سيٌد شرف الدٌين عبد الرٌَحمان شاه
Personal life
Born
Home townTurkestan
Known forIslamic Missionary
Religious life
ReligionSunni Islam
SchoolHanafi
TariqaSuharwardiyya
CreedMaturidi

Syed Sharf-Ud-Din Abdul Rehman Shah (Persian: سيٌد شرف الدٌين عبد الرٌَحمان شاه), popularly known as Bulbul Shah (Persian: بلبل شاه), was a 14th-century Uyghur Sufi of Suhrawardi order. He introduced first Islam to Kashmir by inviting and converting the King of Kashmir, Rinchan Shah (later named to Sadruddin Shah) to Islam. He was from a Suhrawardi order and his mentor was Mir Syed Niymatullah who ordered him to on take Islamic missionary movement to Kashmir. Shah was mentioned by "Baba Dawood Mishkati" in Asrar-ul- Abrar and Rafi-ud- Din Nawadir-ul- Akhbar.