# Sheikh Abdallah al-Qutbi (Sheekh Cabdullaahi Qudbi)

> Sheikh Abdallah al-Qutbi (c. 1879-1919): Somali Qadiriyya theologian, author of The Blessed Collection.

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## Who was he?

Abdallah ibn Mu'allim Yusuf al-Qutbi was a Somali theologian, polemicist and philosopher who lived from about 1879 to 1919 ([Wikipedia, Abdallah al-Qutbi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdallah_al-Qutbi)). He lived at Qulunqul, also written Kolonkol (same source).

## Faith and writing

He was a disciple of [Sheikh](/en/regions/sheikh/) Abdulrahman al-Shashi and a member of the [Qadiriyya](/en/society/islam-in-somalia/) Sufi order ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdallah_al-Qutbi)). His best-known work is *al-Majmu'at al-mubaraka* (The Blessed Collection), a five-part collection of polemics published in Cairo around 1919 to 1920, the year 1338 in the Islamic calendar (same source).

## In short

A Qadiriyya scholar whose five-part Blessed Collection was published in Cairo around the time of his death.

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