In 1095, at the age of eighteen, he went to Baghdad. Gilani spent his early life in Gilan, the province of his birth. Gilani's mother, Ummul Khair Fatima, was also a Sayyid, but of Husaynid branch having been a descendant of Muhammad al-Jawad, himself descended from Husayn ibn Ali, the younger brother of Hasan. ![]() "fight-lover" in Farsi) in the Iranic-speaking world, which was originally his father's sobriquet. Abu Saleh was respected as a saint by the people of his day, and was known as Jangi Dost (lit. Gilani's father, Abu Saleh, was from a Hasanid Sayyid lineage, tracing his descent from Hasan ibn Ali, a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. However, Gilani also carried the epithet Baghdadi, referring to his residence and burial in Baghdad. Gilani ( Arabic al-Jilani) refers to his place of birth, Gilan. The honorific Muhiyudin denotes his status with many Sufis as a "reviver of religion". ![]() ![]()
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