Haji Malang

Haji Malang, is a 300 year old dargah at Kalyan, in Mumbai, where Baba Abdur Rehman Malang has been buried. Malang was a Sufi saint who came to India in the 12th century AD from the middle east. Haji Malang, in true syncretic tradition, was one of the few dargahs where a Hindu vahivatdar (traditional priest from the Hindu Karandekar family) and a Muslim mutavalli (claiming to be distant kin of the saint), had both been officiating at religious rituals.

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	20 2006, 08:55 Parag Mahale	+9
yeah.. the name is HAJI MALANG.. malangad is near kalsubai if u dont know

	17 months ago Sameer Dalvi	+2
My dear the name of this shrine is Shri Malang and not Haji Malang. Please correct it. Actually it is a shrine of a hindu saint Machindranath which was seigh by force during the arab invasion. But later on the islamic invaders ver defeted during Under the learship of Chatrapati Shivaji.

	16 months ago Manoj Kale	+4
Sameer i am amaze to know that you have deep knowledge about this place good work keep it up! i had visited this place in my childhood 15 years before. have some unclear memory abot this place. its was one of my best experience in childhood.

	11 months ago Asgarali	+1
Haji Malang . Most Probarbly it is . A Dargah of a muslim saint .it is said that when people from the arab world residing on the shores when they use to see at the sea facing the indian side they use to see a light on the indian side .At that time people use to say thatthe light was from the shrine of the sufi saint at haji malang... And for sameer dalvi it seems that you are reading history books written by RSS.

	9 months ago SANDEEP SAXENA	+1
I HAVE VISITED THIS PLACE MANY TIMES, I LIVE VERY CLOSE TO HAJI MALANG,ULHASNAGAR.IT IS HAJIMALANG AND NOT MALANG GAD.SOME POLTICIAN CHANGE THE NAME IN THEIR INTEREST BUT STILL REMEMBER IT HAS HAJI MALANG.

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