Amir Kulal (Persian: امیر کلال‎‎, Arabic: امیر کلال‎‎), also known as Shams ud-Dīn (Persian: شمس الدین‎‎, Arabic: شمس الدین‎‎); died in 1363, born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, he was a Persian Islamic scholar who is widely considered to be one of the most influential Sufi Muslim orders, the Naqshbandi. His father was the scholar Saif ud-Dīn Hamza (سیف الدین حمزہ) a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Saif ud-Dīn Hamza (sometimes called Saif ud-Dīn Kulal) was also Amir (chieftain) of Tribe of Kulal (Amir-i-Kulal), hence the title Amir. After Saif ud-Dīn Hamza’s death Shams ud-Dīn took up the role of head of the tribe by which time his reputation as a scholar and religious figure had spread through Turkistan, and the title Amir-i-Kulal had become synonymous with Shams ud-Dīn, which stays