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Born | 1077 or 1078 (1 Ramadan 470 AH) |
Died | 1166 CE (11 Rabi' al-Thani 561 AH) |
Resting place | Baghdad, Iraq |
Religion | Sunni Islam |
Children | Abdul Razzaq Jilani |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Hanbali |
Main interest(s) | Fiqh, Sufism |
Tariqa | Qadiriyya (founder) |
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Disciple of | Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi |
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Abdul Qadir Gilani (Persian: عبدالقادر گیلانی, Arabic: عبد القادر الجيلاني, romanized: ʿAbdul-Qādir al-Jīlānī) was a Hanbali scholar, preacher, 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]
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