Structure of Shamsi Tombs in Punjab

Abstract

This article elaborates the Structure of tombs of Shamsi saints specially structure of Darbar Shah Shamas Sabzwari Tabrizi in Multan, Darbar Ali Abkar Shamsi in Multan, Darbar Fatima mother of Sakhi Sultan Ali Akbar in Multan and Hassan Kabir Uddin in Uch Sharif, along with a little history of saints and establishment of Darbar history. The interior and exterior structure of tombs like Kashi Kari work is also discussed. Review of literature is done for saints’ life history and critical analysis and regional history is used as methodology of this article. This work is a precursor to other future works on structure of tombs of saints of Multan. The Darbar structure, Urs, Mureeds, area, access to Darbar for people and locations of Darbars is given for further exposure and visits for future.

Keywords: Shah Shamas Sabzwari, Ali Abkar Shamsi, Fatima’s mother of Sakhi Sultan Ali Akbar, Hassan Kabir Uddin, Multan, Uch Sharif. Urs, Chehlum, Mureeds, Urs, Kashi Kari, Qawali.