Bab al-Sheikh

Bab al-Sheikh (Arabic: بَاب ٱلشَّيْخ, romanized: The Gate of the Sheikh) is an old historical large neighborhood in the Rusafa side of Baghdad, Iraq. It is notable for being the location of the Hadhrat al-Qadiriyya which contains the tomb of Sufi Sheikh Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani, founder of the Qadiriyya Order. The area is contains many Sufi monasteries, tombs, smaller neighborhoods, and mosques.

Bab al-Sheikh is located southeast of the Rusafa side of Baghdad, and has historically been a significant site for religious, community, and cultural activity. Due to this, the area gained a reputation for having a collective cultural memory, as well as being the center of the Sufi Qadiriyya Order that spread in the Islamic world as far back as the Abbasid Caliphate.