Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, the Hanbali preacher of Baghdad whose sermons drew the city, dies; the Qadiriyya, among the earliest of the great Sufi orders to spread worldwide, carries his name and becomes Sufism's most widespread order.
Tagged: Muslim Sufi Orders
The Event
- Date
- 1166 (exact)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Baghdad; today Baghdad, Iraq
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sufi Orders
- Key figures
- Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
- Key texts
- Al-Ghunya
Primary Sources
- Al-Ghunya
Secondary Sources
- Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path (Oxford, 4th ed. 2011)
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
Provenance: HIST-0234; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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