The Persian Sufi whose Kashf al-Mahjub is the earliest major treatise on Sufism in Persian, and whose Lahore shrine is among South Asia's most revered.
Life
Ali Hujwiri (c. 1009–1077), known in South Asia as Data Ganj Bakhsh ("the master who bestows treasure"), traveled from Ghazna to settle in Lahore, where he taught and wrote the Kashf al-Mahjub, the first systematic exposition of Sufi doctrine and practice in the Persian language. His tomb in Lahore became one of the great pilgrimage shrines of the subcontinent, and he is revered as a foundational figure who helped root Sufism — and Islam — in the region.