Abdallah al-Qutbi

{{short description|20th-century Islamic scholar and philosopher}}

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|name = Abdallah Yusuf al-Qutbi

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|birth_date= 1879

|death_date = 1919

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|ethnicity = Somali

|region = Horn of Africa/North Africa

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|main_interests = Islamic philosophy, polemics

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Abdallah ibn Mu'allim Yusuf al-Qutbi ({{langx|ar|عبد الله يوسف قطبي }}) (c. 1879 – 1919

) was a Somali polemicist, theologian and philosopher who lived in Qulunqul (Kolonkol), Somalia.

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 ca. 1919–1920 (1338).{{cite book|last=Martin|first=B.G.|title=Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521534518|pages=199|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o0XhcUWa1_4C}}

Sheikh Abdullahi Qutbi, a disciple of Sheikh Abdulrahman Al Shashi and member of Qadiriyyah congregation, an Islamic school of thought or tariqah.

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Category:1879 births

Category:1952 deaths

Category:Somalian religious leaders

Category:Somalian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam

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