Ebook: The Grey Falcon: The Life and Teaching of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
Author: Hamza Malik
- Tags: ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī -- -1166, Qādirīyah members -- Biography, Qādirīyah members, ʿAbd-al-Qādir al-Ǧīlānī Ibn-Abī-Ṣāliḥ -- 1077-1166, Islamische Theologie, Sufismus
- Series: Arab history and civilization 155
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Brill
- Language: English
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In The Grey Falcon, Hamza Malik offers an account of the life and teaching of the twelfth century scholar and Sufi of Baghdad, and eponym of the Qadiri order, Shaykh 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (1077-1166). The question of whether Jilani was a Sufi, or simply a scholar appropriated by later Sufis as has been sometimes suggested, is tackled through an analysis of his three most popular works, the Ghunya li Talibi Tariq Read more...