Abdullah ad-Daghistani

Abdullah al-Faiz ad-Daghistani , was the 39th Shaykh in the Naqshbandi Haqqani Silsila.

Early life He was born in the North Caucasian region of Dagestan, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1891. Both his father and elder brother were medical doctors, the latter being a surgeon in the Imperial Russian Army. Shaykh Abdullah was raised and trained by his maternal uncle, Shaykh Sharafuddin Daghistani (1875–1936).

Move to Ottoman Turkey In the late 1890s Shaykh Abdullah's family emigrated to the Ottoman Empire, following his uncle, Shaykh Sharafuddin who had emigrated in the 1870s.