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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from Arabic Qādiri ‘associated with Qādir’, (see Kader). In particular this term denotes association with Qādiriyyah, a Sufi order established in Baghdad by ‛Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlanī (died 1166), known as ‘the Sultan of the saints’.

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