ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ohlander, Erik S.
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī [or al-Jīlī], Jamāl al-Dīn (or Sirāj al-Dīn) Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (or Abū l-Faraj) (d. 575/1180), was one of the many sons of the famous Ḥanbalite jurist, preacher, and Ṣūfī from Baghdad and eponym of the Qādiriyya order, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561/1166). Although he is usually mentioned in lists of the more noteworthy progeny from among the twenty-seven sons and twenty-two daughters born to ʿAbd al-Qādir, such as that