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'''Azan Faqir''' ({{lang-ar|أذان فقير}}), born '''Shah Miran''', also known as '''Ajan Pir''', '''Hazrat Shah Miran''', and '''Shah Milan''' (presumably from ''[[Miran, Markazi|Miran]]''), was a [[Sufi]] [[Syed]],<ref name=brahmaputrabeckons>{{cite book |title=The Brahmaputra Beckons |year= 1982|publisher=Brahmaputra Beckons Publication Committee |asin=B0000CQAKG |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s7y1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Azan+Fakir%22 |accessdate=2008-09-05 |author1=Committee, Brahmaputra Beckons Publication}}</ref> [[poet]], Muslim preacher and saint from the 17th century<ref>{{cite book |title=A Socio-economic & Cultural History of Medieval Assam, 1200 A.D.-1800 A.D. |last=Sarma |first=Satyendranath |year=1989 |publisher=Pratima Devi |page=230 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M4xAAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Azan+Pir%22 |accessdate=2008-09-05}}</ref> who came from [[Baghdad]] or as per some family sources, Badaun in western UP to settle in the [[Sibsagar]] area of [[Assam]] in the north-eastern part of India, where he helped to unify the people of the [[Brahmaputra]] valley,<ref>{{cite book |title=Social and Economic Profile of North-east India |last=B. Datta-Ray |first=B. |year=1978 |publisher=B. R. Pub. Corp. |page=343 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RgAlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Azan+Pir%22 |accessdate=2008-09-05}}</ref> and to reform, reinforce and stabilise [[Islam]] in the region of Assam.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} The nickname ''Azan'' came from his habit of calling [[Adhan|azan]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Sufi Movements in Eastern India |last=Tamizi |first=Mohammad Yahya |year=1992 |publisher=Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzcbAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Azan+Pir%22 |accessdate=2008-09-05}}</ref> He came to Assam in about 1630 from Iraq, that is, approximately 200 years after the birth of Srimanta [[Sankardev]]<br />
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According to one version{{Which|date=May 2010}}{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} his name was "Hazarat Shah Syed Mainuddin". He is particularly known for his ''[[Zikr and Zari]]'', two forms of devotional songs, that draw from local musical traditions and have striking similarities with ''[[borgeet]]s'' of [[Srimanta Sankardeva]], the 16th-century saint-scholar from Assam. In addition, the late renowned author and Sahitya Akademi award winner Syed Abdul Malik states that Azan Fakir was a preacher with profound mastery over the [[Qur’an]], the [[Hadith]] and [[Islamic philosophy]].<br />
[[File:Hajarat Ajan Pir Dargaah,Horaguri Chapori,Sivasagar.jpg|thumb|Hajarat Ajan Pir Dargaah,Horaguri Chapori,Sivasagar]]<br />
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==Career==<br />
Azan Fakir was a disciple of [[Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya]] in [[Baghdad]]. He came to Assam accompanied by his brother Shah Navi. He married an [[Ahom people|Ahom]] woman of high social stature and settled at [[Gargaon|Gorgaon]], near modern [[Sibsagar]] town.<br />
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As a [[Pir (Sufism)|Pir]] he composed Zikrs (a type of spiritual song). Originally he spoke [[Arabic]], but he completely mastered the language of the land he adopted, permitting comparison of his songs to those of his [[Vaishnava]] contemporaries.<br />
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==The conspiracy==<br />
In course of time his influence spread, he acquired a good number of followers and earned the enmity of an Ahom Muslim official, Rupai Dadhora, who by conspiracy convinced the Ahom king that Azan Fakir was a Mughal spy and had orders passed for plucking out the Pir's eyes. The Pir, according to some songs, had two earthen pots brought into which he let his "two eyes drop".He then asked the soldiers to throw the pots into the nearby [[Dikhow River]] instead of taking them to the King.<br />
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==Aftermath==<br />
The king was alarmed and for atonement made land grants to Ajan Fakir at Soraguri Chapari, near [[Sibsagar]] and had a [[matha]] built for him. This place on the bank of [[Brahmaputra]] has become a holy place with Ajan Pir's Dargah where an annual [[urs]] is held.<br />
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His ''[[dargah]]'' is at Saraguri Chapari near [[Sibsagar]] town.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Ajan Faquir Saheb]], a 2008 [[Assamese-language]] film about him.... <br />
Azan Fakir composed 160 zikir and zari but 90 are found now<br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{cite web<br />
|last=Bora <br />
|first=Utpala <br />
|title=Zikir and Zari: Sufi songs of Assam <br />
|website=Posoowa <br />
|url=http://www.posoowa.org/2006/05/26/305/<br />
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929060952/http://www.posoowa.org/2006/05/26/305/<br />
|archive-date=2007-09-29<br />
|date=May 2006 <br />
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* {{Cite journal<br />
|last=Das<br />
|first=Jogesh<br />
|title=Folklore of Assam<br />
|pages=111–112<br />
}}<br />
* {{Cite journal<br />
|journal=Radiance Viewsweekly<br />
|volume=XLVI<br />
|issue=11<br />
|date=2008-06-15<br />
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