Abdul Qadir Gilani

**ʿAbd al-Qādir Gīlānī**, (, formally **Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʾAbī Sālih al-Gīlānī al-Ḥasanī** (, (, (, (), known as for short was a Hanbali Sunni Muslim preacher, orator, ascetic, mystic, sayyid, faqīh, and theologian. and died Monday, February 14, 1166 (11 Rabi' al-Thani 561 AH), in Baghdad, (1077–1166 CE), was a Persian jurist and sufi based in Baghdad. The Qadiriyya tariqa is named after him. And say that he was born in **Gilan Iraq**, a historic village near the cities (Al-Mada'in) of 40&nbsp;kilometers south of Baghdad, as evidenced by historical studies academic and adopted by the Gilan Family in Baghdad.

## Name's origin 
The name *Muhiyudin* describes him as a "reviver of religion". Gilan (Arabic *al-Jilani*) refers to his place of birth, Gilan. However, Gilani also carried the epithet *Baghdadi.* referring to his residence and burial in Baghdad.

### Paternal heritage 
Gilani's father was from  Sharif's Al-Hassani lineage. He was respected as a sheikh by the people of his day, and was known as *Jangi Dost* "who loves God", thus "Jangidost" was his sobriquet.

## Education 
Gilani spent his early life in Gilan, the town of his birth. In 1095, at the age of eighteen years, he went to Baghdad. There, he pursued the study of Hanbali law  under Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi and ibn Aqil. He was given lessons on Hadith by Abu Muhammad Ja'far al-Sarraj. (A detailed description of his various teachers and subjects are included below). After completing his education, Gilani left Baghdad. He spent twenty-five years as a reclusive wanderer in the desert regions of Iraq.

### Education in Baghdad 
At the age of 18, Gilani went to Baghdad to study the Hanbali school of fiqh.

## Later life 
In 1127, Gilani returned to Baghdad and began to preach to the public. He joined the teaching staff of the school belonging to his own teacher, al-Mazkhzoomi, and was popular with students. In the morning he taught hadith and tafsir, and in the afternoon he held discourse on the science of the heart and the virtues of the Quran. He was said to have been a convincing preacher and converted numerous Jews and Christians. His strength came in the reconciling of the mystical nature of Sufism and strict nature of the Quran. During the reign of the Safavid Shah Ismail I, Gilani's shrine was destroyed. However, in 1535, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent had a *turba* (dome) built over the shrine, which exists to this day.

## Birthday & Death Anniversary celebration 
1 Ramadan is celebrated as the birthday of Abdul Qadir Gilani while the death anniversary is on 11 Rabi us Thani though some scholars and traditions say 29 Shaban and 17 Rabi us Sani as birth and death day respectively. The later is called in the Subcontinent as Giyarwee Shareef or  Honoured Day of 11th.

## Books 
* *Kitab Sirr al-Asrar wa Mazhar al-Anwar* (The Book of the Secret of Secrets and the Manifestation of Light)

## Related pages
* Jilala
* Moinuddin Chishti

## Bibliography 
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* *Fifteen letters, khamsata ashara maktūban / Shaikh Abd Al-Qādir Al-Jīlānī*. Translated from Persian to Arabic by Alī usāmu ́D-Dīn Al-Muttaqī. Translated from Arabic into English by Muhtar Holland.
* *Kamsata ašara maktūban*. First edition. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, ʿAlī B., ʿAbd al-Malik al- Muttaqī al-Hindī (about 1480–1567) and Muhtar Holland (1935–). Al-Baz publications, Hollywood, Florida. (1997) .
* *Jalā Al-Khawātir: a collection of forty-five discourses of Shaikh Abd Al-Qādir Al-Jīlānī, the removal of cares*. Chapter 23, pg 308. Jalā al-Khawātir, Holland, Muhtar (1935–) (translator). Al-Baz publications, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (1997) .
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* *Al-Ghunya li-talibi tariq al-haqq wa al-din*, (*Sufficient provision for seekers of the path of truth and religion), Parts one and two in Arabic. Al-Qadir, Abd, Al-Gaylani. Dar Al-Hurya, Baghdad, Iraq, (1988).*
* *Al-Ghunya li-talibi tariq al-haqq wa al-din*,  (*Sufficient provision for seekers of the path of truth and religion.*) in Arabic. Introduced by Al-Kilani, Majid Irsan. Dar Al-Khair, Damascus, Bairut, (2005).
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* Geography of the Baz Ahhab second reading in the biography of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, and the birthplace of his birth according to the methodology of scientific research (MA in Islamic History from Baghdad University in 2001) of Iraqi researcher Jamal al-Din Faleh Kilani, review and submission of the historian Emad Abdulsalam Rauf،Publishe Dar Baz Publishing, United States of America, 2016, translated by Sayed Wahid Al-Qadri Aref.

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## References 
## Other websites
* https://archive.org/details/lisanarabs_kilany11  GOGHRAFI ALBAZ ALASHB, at archive.org.
*  Translation of Futuh al-Ghaib, at archive.org.
*  Translation of parts of Al-Ghunya Li Talibi Tariq Al-Haqq, at archive.org.
*  Translation of excerpts from Al-Fath Al-Rabbani, at archive.org.
*  Translation of Malfuzat, at archive.org.