Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi

Muslim scholar

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1641

Place of Birth: Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Syria

Date of Death: 05-Mar-1731

Profession: writer, author, mystic

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Shaykh 'Abd al-Ghani ibn Isma'il al-Nabulsi (an-Nabalusi) (19 March 1641 – 5 March 1731), was an eminent Sunni Muslim scholar and Sufi, was born in Damascus in 1641 into a family of Islamic scholarship.
His father, Isma'il Abd al-Ghani, was a jurist in the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam and a contributor to Arabic literature.
He was orphaned at an early age.
Abd al-Ghani did not trace his descent to the city of Nablus as some laymen think, hence his surname Nabulsi has nothing to deal with the city of (Nablus).Before the age of 20 he was teaching and giving formal legal opinions (fatwa).
He joined both the mystical orders Qadiriyya and Naqshbandi, and spent seven years in isolation in his house studying the mystics on their expression of divine experiences.
He taught in the Umawi Mosque in Damascus and the Salihiyya Madrasa, becoming renowned throughout the region as an accomplished Islamic scholar.
He travelled extensively, seeing Istanbul (1664), Lebanon (1688), Jerusalem (1689), Palestine (1689), Egypt (1693), Arabia (1693), and Tripoli (1700).He died and was buried in Damascus in 1731 at 90 years of age.