Author: Gibril Fouad Haddad
A travelogue of oft-visited spiritual gravesites of Baghdad and other locales of Iraq in the month of Rabi( al-Thani 1423 (June 2002), with a glimpse of the lives of some of the masters said to rest in those graves, their virtues and merits, and an overview of the etiquette and
benefits in visiting the people of lofty stations and their company in life and after death.

This is a brief memento of a journey to some of the oft-visited spiritual gravesites of Baghdad the City of Peace and of some other locales of Iraq – Allah protect her – during the season of the ʿUrs (spiritual marriage) of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jaylānī – may Allah sanctify his secret – in the month of Rabīʿ al-Thānī 1423, on June 18-23, 002. The title attempts to capture the spirit of the generic Arabic terms that are used to refer to the subject, such as ḍarīḥ (grave-bed), ḥaḍra (presence), maqām (station, residence), marqad (resting-place), mazār (visitation), qabr (burial-place), tharā (earth), ziyāra (visitation).
 

About the Author:

A disciple of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (pictured wearing Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jaylani's turban after coming out a forty-day seclusion in his Baghdad· maqam in mid-Shaban 1966) and his caliph Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani since 1991, Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad holds scholarly licences (ijazas) from 200 shaykhs and has authored four dozen book and hundreds of articles on Islamic hermeneutics, doctrine, hadith, tasawwuf, biography and heresiology. He has completed the first ten-lection English translation of the Holy Qur'an and an annotated complete translation of Imam al-Baydawi's Tafsir, the first-ever in any language. He lives in Brunei Darussalam with his family.

ISBN: 978-1-930409-57-6
pages: 132