page_title: Abdul Qadir Gilani
section_title: Birthday and death anniversary celebration
hierarchical_section_title: Abdul Qadir Gilani / Birthday and death anniversary celebration
caption_attribution_description: English: A sunset view of tomb of Abdul Qadir Jilani, Baghdad.
context_page_description: ʿAbd al-Qādir Gīlānī, known by admirers as Muḥyī l-Dīn Abū Muḥammad b. Abū Sāliḥ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Gīlānī al-Ḥasanī wa'l-Ḥusaynī, was a Hanbali Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, who was known for being the eponymous founder of the Qadiriyya tariqa of Sufism.
  He was born on 29 Sha'ban 470 AH in the town of Na'if, district of Gilan-e Gharb, Gilan, Iran, and died on Monday, February 21, 1166, in Baghdad. He was a Persian Hanbali Sunni jurist and Sufi based in Baghdad. The Qadiriyya tariqa is named after him.
context_section_description: 1 Ramadan is celebrated as Gilani’s birthday while his death anniversary is on 11 Rabi' al-Thani, although some scholars give 29 Sha'ban and 17 Rabi' al-Thani as his birth and death days. In the Indian subcontinent, his ‘urs, or death anniversary, is called Giyarwee Shareef, or Honoured Day.
caption: Tomb of Sheikh Abdul Qadir, Baghdad, Iraq.
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