Category Archives: Yemen

Shaykh Abul-Wafa Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn-Ijeel al-Yamani (983-1074H)

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Talib Ghaffari

Shaykh Abu al-Wafā Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn-ʿIjīl al-Yamanī alias al-ʿIjl (983-1074 AH) was a great scholar and a Sufi shaykh of the Naqshbandī Aḥrārī tarīqah. He was a deputy of Shaykh Tāj ad-Dīn Sambhalī ʿUthmānī (d.1051 AH) who was a … Continue reading →

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Imam Murtada Zabidi (1145-1205)

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Talib Ghaffari

Imām Sayyid Muḥammad Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī Ḥusaynī Naqshbandī (1145-1205 AH) was an illustrious scholar and master of many sciences. He was a Sayyid by descent and from a prominent family of Sayyids in Bilgram, India. He was born and raised there … Continue reading →

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Shaykh Abd al-Baqi Mizjaji Hanafi Naqshbandi (1074 AH)

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Talib Ghaffari

Shaykh ʿAbd al-Bāqī Mizjājī Tuḥaytī Zabīdī Ḥanafī Naqshbandī Aḥrārī (d. 1074 AH) qaddas-Allāhu sirrahū was a great Islamic scholar and a Sufi master of the Naqshbandī Path in Yemen during the eleventh century AH. He was a deputy of Shaykh … Continue reading →

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