Abdul Qadir Gilani

Abdul Qadir Gilani
Abdul Qadir Gilani
	Imaginary depiction of Abdul Qadir Gilani. Created in Mughal India in c. 1680
Personal
Born	1077 or 1078; Gilan, Seljuk Empire
Died	1166; Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Resting place	Baghdad, Iraq
Religion	Sunni Islam
Children	Abdul Razzaq Jilani
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanbali
Creed	Athari
Main interest(s)	Fiqh, Sufism
Tariqa	Qadiriyya (founder)

Abdul Qadir Gilani (Arabic: عبد القادر الجيلاني, Persian: عبدالقادر گیلانی) 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]

^ Chabbi 2009.
^ 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."
^ 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani at the Encyclopædia Britannica

[FOOTNOTEChabbi2009-1] Chabbi 2009.

[W._Braune,_1986-2] 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."

[EB-3] 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani at the Encyclopædia Britannica

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