Ahmed Gailani

Ahmed Gailani
پیر سید احمد گیلانی
Gailani in September 2014
Personal
Born1932
Died21 January 2017(2017-01-21) (aged 84–85)
Home townSurkh-Rōd
Children5
ParentSayyid Hasan Gailani (father)
LineageAbdul-Qadir Gilani
Alma materKabul University
Organization
OrderQadiriyya Sufi

Pir Sayyid Ahmed Gailani (Persian: پیر سید احمد گیلانی‎ 1932– 21 January 2017), was the leader (Pir) of the Qadiriyyah Sufi order in Afghanistan, and the founder of the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan (Mahaz-i-Milli Islami ye Afghanistan), a party that was associated with the Mujahideen who led the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.