Shah Jalal Dakhini

Shah Jalal Dakhini (, ) was a 15th-century Sufi Muslim figure of Dhaka, eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh). Dakhini was one among the many Sufis who spread Islam in eastern India. Saint received an honorifics as a Dakhini as he was the resident of Deccan.

One day, he set off with a few companions from Gujarat to eastern Bengal, during the reign of the Sultan of Bengal Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah. He established a khanqah in present-day Motijheel, Dhaka in order to propagate Islamic teachings to the local people. According to legend, the Sultan was angered by this, viewing Dakhini as a threat, and so had Dakhini and his comrades executed in 1475. Dakhini is assumed to be buried in the eastern tomb of a single-domed mazar (mausoleum) northeast of the Bangabhaban gateway.

Legacy

Tradition holds that his tomb is within the Bangabhaban compound.