Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · South Asia · Maghreb
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Overview
The Qadiri order is among the oldest and most widespread Sufi orders of the Islamic world; traced to Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (d. 561 AH/1166 CE), it expanded from Baghdad east and west 1.
In the sources
Academic study describes the Qadiriyya as the first broad organization of the Sufi path, extending from Iraq to India and North Africa 1.
Connections
People and things also explored
Baghdad· Mukhtar al-Kunti· Seku Amadu· Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi· Ba Lobbo· Shah Ahmad Noorani· Fez· Mecca
Sources
- J. Spencer Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (Oxford 1998)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Qadiri order (Qadiriyya)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/qadiriyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.