At a glance
- Roles
- mystic · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Colonial Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- Saint (as venerated)Tradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Huda Safa' al-Din Isa ibn Jalal al-Din Musa al-Bandanijy al-Qadiri al-Naqshbandi al-Baghdadi. A Sufi scholar of Baghdad, from both the Qadiriyya and Naqshbandiyya orders, and called after Bandanijin 1.
Dates
The encyclopedia gives his birth as 1203 AH (1788 CE) and his death as 1283 AH (1866 CE). It classes him as a saint on the basis of transmitted report 1.
Notes for researchers
- The entry rests on the encyclopedia Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa al-Udaba' alone, with no page numbers. It needs an additional source.
People and things also explored
Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)· Tabattul (withdrawal from the world)· Intimacy with God (uns billah)· Certainty and its degrees (yaqin)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Safa' al-Din Isa al-Bandanijy”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/safa-al-din-isa-al-bandanijy/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.