Poetry and Personality of Sheikh Sharaf al-Din Bu Ali Qalandar

This is a scholarly article that examines the life and poetry of Shaykh Sharaf al-Din Bu Ali Qalandar of Panipat, a well-known Sufi mystic of the seventh and eighth centuries of the Islamic calendar who lived in the Indian subcontinent. Using a descriptive and analytical method with library sources, the article introduces his personality and explores his mystical verse, particularly his ghazals and qasidas. The study aims to analyze both the poet's character and the content and forms of his surviving poetry, which carries themes drawn from Islamic mysticism.