Abdallah ibn Mu'allim Yusuf al-Qutbi ( ar, عبد الله يوسف قطبي ) (c. 1879 – 1952) was a
Somali polemicist
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,
theologian
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and
philosopher who lived in
Qulunqul (Kolonkol),
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
.
Biography
Sheikh Al-Qutbi is best known for his ''Al-Majmu'at al-mubaraka'' ("The Blessed Collection"), a five-part compilation of polemics that was published in
Cairo
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ca. 1919–1920 (1338).
Sheikh Abdullahi Qutbi, a disciple of Sheikh Abdulrahman Al Shashi and member of Qadiriyyah congregation, an Islamic school of thought or tariqah.
See also
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Shaykh Sufi
Abd Al-Rahman bin Abdullah al Shashi ( ar, عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله الشاشي) (b. 1829 - 1904), popularly known as Sheikh Sufi, was a 19th-century Somali scholar, poet, reformist and astrologist.
Life
Sheikh Sufi was born in M ...
References
1879 births
1952 deaths
Somalian religious leaders
Somalian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
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