Gulamur Rahman

Gulamur Rahman
Maizbhandari
Personal life
Born
Syed Gulamur Rahman

1865 (1865)
Died1937 (aged 7172)
Resting placeShrine of Syed Gulamur Rahman Maizbhandari, Maizbhandar, Bangladesh
ChildrenSyed Khairul Bashar Maizvandari Syed Abul Bashar MaizbhandariMaizvandari Syed Mahbubul Bashar Maizvandari Alhaz Syed Safiul Bashar Maizvandari Syeda Maimuna Khatun Maizvandari Syeda Sazeda Khatun Maizvandari
Known for2nd leader of the Maizbhandari Sufi Order
RelativesSyed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari (grandson)
Syed Ahmad Ullah (uncle)
Ziaul Haq (grandson)
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
TariqaMaizbhandari
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)Ghulām ar-Raḥmān
غلام الرحمن
Patronymic (Nasab)ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muṭīʿ Ullāh ibn Ṭayyab Ullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Ḥamīd ad-Dīn
بن عبد الكريم بن مطيع الله بن طيب الله بن عبد القادر بن حميد الدين
Epithet (Laqab)Bābā Bhandārī
بابا بهنداري
Toponymic (Nisba)al-Māʾijbhandārī
المائجبهنداري
as-Sayyid
السيد

Gulamur Rahman Maizbhandari (Bengali: গোলামুর রহমান মাইজভাণ্ডারী; 1865–1937), also known by his sobriquet Baba Bhandari (Bengali: বাবা ভাণ্ডারী), was a Bengali Sufi preacher who succeeded his uncle, Syed Ahmad Ullah, as the head of the Maizbhandari Sufi Order, the first such Sufi order in Bengal.