Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi

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Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi
Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi
Born	Ian Dallas 1930 Ayr, Scotland, United Kingdom
Residence	Cape Town, South Africa
Occupation	Shaikh of Instruction
Title	Shaykh
Religious belief	Islam
Website	http://www.shaykhabdalqadir.com/

Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi is a Shaikh of Instruction, the leader of the of the Darqawi-Shadilliya-Qadiri Tariqa, a pupil of Shaykh Muhammad Ibn al-Habib [1] of Morocco and the founder of the Murabitun Worldwide Movement. The order began as the Habibiyya-Darqawiyya (Derived from the Darqawi Sufi order which is itself, derived from the Shadhili Sufi order). Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi is a Scottish Muslim convert formerly known as Ian Dallas,[2] and was a playwright, dramatist, actor and fringe figure of 1960s counterculture. He converted to Islam in 1963 with the Imam of the Qayrawiyyin mosque in Fez. The Murabitun have spread from Britain, to other parts of Europe, Africa, the United States, Southeast and Central Asia, and Australia.

Shaykh Abdalqadir has been calling people to Allah for more than 30 years now. He has students and murids all over the world in Muslim and non-Muslim lands. His Idhn (authorization) comes from two Shaykhs. Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib of Morocco, who was his first Shaykh and who made him his Muqaddim (representative) in the West, and Shaykh Muhammad al-Fayturi Hamudah who "by his authority joined together the two separate branches of the Habibiyya and the 'Alawiyya, so that they have become again by Allah's overflowing generosity, the Darqawiyya."

The name Murabitun was adopted in the 1980s by Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi for his students. Today, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi leads a community of Muslims throughout the world adhering to the Maliki school of rulings. His adherents lead a da'wah movement in Latin America and are as widespread in Muslim countries, such as Malaysia, Nigeria , as they are in Europe and the West.

1 Authorship
2 Translations undertaken by his students
3 Chain of Transmission
4 External links

[edit] Authorship

Some of the books he has written over the past 30 years include:

The Way of Muhammad,[3] an existential exposition of the pillars of Islam from the perspective of Sufism (Diwan Press, 1975, ASIN: B0000D74TC)
'Indications From Signs
The Hundred Steps, a classic work on key steps in the path of Sufism (Portobello Press, ISBN)
Qur'anic Tawhid
Letter to An African Muslim
Kufr - An Islamic Critique
Root Islamic Education,[4] written on the school of the people of Madinah under the leadership of Imam Malik (Madina Press, June 1993, ISBN)
For the Coming Man
The Return of the Khalifate, a historical work on the Ottomans, their demise and its causes and an exposition of a route to the recovery of the khalifate (Madinah Press, 1996, ISBN)
The Technique of the Coup de Banque (available in PDF here [5]) on the modern age since its inception in the French Revolution.
Sultaniyya (available in PDf here:[6]) is a modern statement on leadership in Islam. Shaykh Abdalqadir surveys Islam under the chapter headings Deen, Dawla (polity), Waqf, Trade, the Sultan — personal rule — and Tasawwuf.

[edit] Translations undertaken by his students

He has authorised translations of classic works of Islam, beginning with the widely-respected

The Noble Qur'an: a new rendering of its meanings in English by Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley (Bookwork, Norwich, UK, ISBN-X)
The Muwatta [7] by Aisha Bewley and Ya'qub Johnson (Bookwork, Norwich, UK, 2001, ISBN)
ash-Shifa by Qadi Iyad (published as "Muhammad the Messenger of Allah by Madinah Press, 1992, ISBN)
The Rasa'il of Shaykh Moulay Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (published as the Darqawi Way by Diwan Press Norwich, UK, 1980, ISBN), and a large number of other works on Islam and Sufism.
The Foundations of Islam (available here as a PDF [8]) By Qadi 'Iyad. A basic Maliki manual on the five pillars of Islam from the distinguished Qadi of Andalus.