Ian Dallas

Ian Dallas

Acting

Birthday

1930/10/30

Day of death

2021/08/01 (90 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Also know as

Abdalqadir as-Sufi

Biography

After a brief career in acting, Ian Dallas, a native-born Scotsman, later reverted to Islam and joined the Shadhili-Darqawi Order of Sufis in Morocco. Upon the death of his Shaykh, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn al-Habib, Dallas became the Shaykh of the Order under the name Shaykh Abdulqadir as-Sufi, the name he was given by his Shaykh. He is still active today (2004) as the leader of the worldwide Murabitun movement of Sufis. He wrote a fictionalized account of his journey into Sufism in a novel, "The Boo...Read more

Acting
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8.1

(1963)

as Maurice, Maya's Assistant

Familiar Spirits
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(1966) Familiar Spirits

as Self

The Madhouse on Castle Street
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(1963) The Madhouse on Castle Street

as Reverend Spooner