Qādirī

The Qadiri order grew around Abdul Qadir Gilani's school in Baghdad, which his son Abdul Razzaq led after his death in 1166. By the end of the fifteenth century its branches had reached places as distant as Morocco, India and present-day Mali.

In 1535 the Ottoman sultan Suleiman commissioned a new shrine over Gilani's grave in Baghdad. In the eighteenth century al-Mukhtar al-Kunti helped spread the order through the middle Niger region and further west.