Ghulām ʿAlī Shāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weismann, Itzchak
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Ghulām ʿAlī Shāh (c. 1743-1824), also known as Shaykh ʿAbdallāh al-Dihlawī, was born and raised in Batala, in the Panjāb. His father, a Ṣūfī of the Qādirī brotherhood (an order named for ʿAbd al-Qādir Jīlānī, d. 561/1166, a Ḥanbalī scholar active in Baghdad), took the eighteen-year-old Ghulām ʿAlī to Delhi, where he accompanied various Ṣūfī shaykh s and studied ḥadīth with Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (d. 1824), son and successor of the eminent scholar Shāh Wālī Allāh (d. 1762). In 1764, Ghulām ʿAlī became