Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani: His Method of Islamic Da'wah (mission)

Abstract

It is widely believed today that the Islamic da'wah movement began as a late reaction against western colonialism in Muslim countries. But a through study in the field of movement in Islam must run deeper into history than the nineteenth century. One becomes aware that much of what is recognized as da'wah activity and methodology today are to be found in the eleventh and twelth centuries, the time of Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani,who was born in Jilan, a district in Iran, in 470 A.H./1077 A.D. and who died in Baghdad in 561 A.H/1166 A.D..