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 (1 Ramadan 470 AH); Gilan, Seljuk Empire
Died	1166 CE (11 Rabi' al-Thani 561 AH); Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Resting place	Baghdad, Iraq
Religion	Sunni Islam
Children	Abdul Razzaq Jilani
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanbali
Main interest(s)	Fiqh, Sufism
Tariqa	Qadiriyya (founder)
Senior posting
Disciple of	Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi
	Disciples Abdul Razzaq Jilani, Sheikh Qadib al-Ban;

Abdul Qadir Gilani (Persian: عبدالقادر گیلانی, romanized: 'Abdulqādir Gīlānī, Arabic: عبد القادر الجيلاني, romanized: ʿAbd al-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]

^ 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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