He was also called Meera Saheb, Qadir Wali and Ganj-e-Sawai. His popularity grew outside Tanjore region during the period. He is believed to have led a simple and pious life, performing a lot of miracles, giving him the name Nagore Andavar (meaning ruler of Nagore). Other sources mention the year of death as 1558, 1570 or 1579. Historians Sayyid and Qadir Hussain (1957) place the date of his birth on 10 November 1504, death on 10 November 1570 and arrival in Nagore during 1533–34. He left on a pilgrimage to Mecca and then moved to Maldives, Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu with his spiritual team. He had his Islamic education at Gwalior under the guidance of Mohammad Ghouse. He was a 13th-generation descendant of the renowned Sufi saint, Muhiyudin Abd al-Qadir al-Jalani. Shahul Hameedd Nagoori was born to Syed Hassan Kuthos Baba Kaadiri and Bibi Fathima at Manikpur, in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. The administration and maintenance of the dargah is governed by a committee which operates under a scheme decreed by the Madras High Court.

The hereditary Khalifa (Sufi saint) c performs all the official and religious duties of the dargah. The Shifa Gunta, a pool within the precincts of the dargah, is considered sacred pilgrims take a holy dip in it. Common worship practices at Nagore dargah include the presentation of offerings, accompanied by the playing of musical instruments like nadaswaram, typical of Hindu religious tradition. The most prominent event celebrated at Nagore dargah is the Kanduri festival, a fourteen-day commemoration of the death anniversary of Shahul Hamid. The dargah is a major pilgrimage centre that attracts pilgrims from both Islam and Hinduism, symbolizing peaceful coexistence between the two religions. There are five minarets in the dargah, with the Hindu Maratha ruler of Thanjavur Pratap Singh (1739–1763 CE), building the tallest minaret. Nagore dargah as it stands now, is believed to have been built by ardent devotees of Shahul Hamid, with major contribution from Hindus.

He is locally referred to as Nagore Andavar, meaning the 'Ruler of Nagore'. Shahul Hamid is believed to have performed many miracles in Nagore, and cured the physical affliction of king Achuthappa Nayak, a 16th-century Hindu ruler of Thanjavur. On Fridays, the doors are additionally kept open between 12:00 and 2:30 pm. The outer doors of the dargah are kept open always, while the internal doors are open from 4:30 am to 07:00 am and from 6:25 pm to 9:30 pm.

It is located in Nagore, a coastal town in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Nagore Dargah (also called Nagoor Dargah or Syed Shahul Hameed Dargah or Nagore Andavar dargah) is a dargah built over the tomb of the Sufi saint Shahul Hameed (1490–1579 CE).

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