Muslim preacher, mystic and theologian (1078–1166)
Abdul Qadir Gilani
Imaginary depiction of Abdul Qadir Gilani. Created in Mughal India in c. 1680
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Born
1077 or 1078
Gilan, Seljuk Empire
Died
1166
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
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Baghdad, Iraq
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Abdul Razzaq Jilani
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Fiqh, Sufism
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Qadiriyya (founder)
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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
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