Qadiriyya
A living tradition within Sufism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Qadiriyya is a living tradition within Sufism. Also written Qadiri order.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (d. 1166). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Encyclopaedia Iranica records that 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, a native of western Gilan, came to Baghdad in 1095 and won renown as a public preacher, teacher of Hanbali jurisprudence, renunciant and mystic, dying in 1166; the order bearing his name formed around his memory. It is described in the scholarship as 'the most famous and perhaps always most widespread' of the Sufi orders. No founding year is given.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Qadiriyya.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-qadiriyya.
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title = {Qadiriyya},
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}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.