Abdul Qadir Jilani (Pakistani scholar)

Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani (Persian: عبد القادر گیلانی, Urdu: عبد القادر گیلانی Abdolqāder Gilāni) (14 December 1935 – 18 October 2025) was a Sunni scholar and jurist. He was born in a village called Sandhu Sayyidan, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, to Walayat Ali Shah Gilani. He was a descendant of Abdul Qadir Gilani and Hasan ibn Ali.

Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani spent much of his later life in Walthamstow, East London, where he continued his religious work and scholarship. He died on 18 October 2025, at the age of 89, after a period of illness.