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A brief biography from Wikipedia.
Conversion
As-Sufi converted to Islam in 1963 in Fes, Morocco as Abdalqadir, witnessed by Shaykh Abdalkarim Daudi, the Imam Khatib of the Qarawiyyin Mosque, and Alal al-Fasi. He then joined the Darqawi order as a student of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib,[3] who conferred on him the title of as-Sufi. He travelled Morocco and Algeria with his Shaykh and was further instructed in Sufism by Sidi Hamud ibn al-Bashir of Blida and Sidi Fudul al-Huwari as-Sufi of Fes.[1]
Tariqa
His Idhn (authorization) for the Darqawi Tariqa comes through two Shaykhs: Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib of Morocco, who was his first Shaykh and who made him his Muqaddem (representative), and Shaykh Muhammad al-Fayturi Hamudah. After returning to Europe from Morocco, he was ordered to Benghazi, Libya, by Shaykh al-Fayturi, who was a direct inheritor from Shaykh Mustafa al-Alawi. There he was put into Khalwa (retreat). Some time after this, Abdalqadir as-Sufi announced his leadership of the Darqawa.
In this initial period he oversaw an important set of translations of Islamic texts for the first time in English, including Malik ibn Anas’s “al-Muwatta”, Qadi Iyad’s “ash-Shifa”, as well as the Diwans of his two Shaykhs and Ahmad ibn 'Ajiba’s “Basic Research”.
Teaching
Abdalqadir as-Sufi advocates adherence to the original legal school of Islam, the Amal of Ahl-ul-Madinah[4] as recorded by Malik ibn Anas, since, as discussed at length in his seminal work Root Islamic Education[5], he considers this the primal formulation of Islamic society and a necessity for the re-establishment of Islam in the current age. Within this he further advocates and teaches the 'Aqidah of Ash’ari and the Tasawwuf of Imam Junayd Baghdadi.
Abdalqadir has been responsible for the establishment of three mosques,
* Ihsan Mosque, Norwich, England[6]
* The Great Mosque of Granada[7]
* The Jumu'a Mosque of Cape Town, South Africa.
His students are encouraged to recite the Wird[8] of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib and the instructional Qasidas from the Diwans of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib and Shaykh Muhammad al-Fayturi.