Abdul Qadir Gilani

Abdul Qadir Gilani
Imaginary depiction of Abdul Qadir Gilani. Created in Mughal India in c. 1680
Personal
Born1077 or 1078
Died1166
Resting placeBaghdad, Iraq
ReligionSunni Islam
ChildrenAbdul Razzaq Jilani
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanbali
CreedAthari
Main interest(s)Fiqh, Sufism
TariqaQadiriyya (founder)

Abu Muhammad Abd al-Qadir ibn Abi Salih al-Jilani al-Hasani (Arabic: أبو محمد عبد القادر بن أبي صالح الجيلاني الحسني, romanizedʾAbū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʾAbī Ṣāliḥ al-Jīlānī al-Ḥasanī), known as Abdul Qadir Gilani (Persian: عبدالقادر گیلانی), was an Islamic scholar and preacher of the Hanbali school and Sufi leader who was the eponym of the Qadiriyya, one of the oldest Sufi orders.[1]

He was born in 1077 or 1078 in the town of Na'if, Rezvanshahr in Gilan, Persia, and died in 1166 in Baghdad.[2][3]

  1. ^ Chabbi 2009.
  2. ^ W. Braune, Abd al-Kadir al-Djilani, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. I, ed. H.A.R Gibb, J.H.Kramers, E. Levi-Provencal, J. Schacht, (Brill, 1986), 69; "authorities are unanimous in stating that he was a Persian from Nayf (Nif) in Djilan, south of the Caspian Sea."
  3. ^ 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani at the Encyclopædia Britannica

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