As part of the bohemian scene in swinging sixties London, Ian Dallas inspired Eric Clapton to write Layla and counted George Harrison and Edith Piaf among his friends…
During the Sixties, he became increasingly disillusioned with his London life and began exploring Islam. In 1967 he met Shaykh Abdalkarim Daudi in Fes, Morocco, converted to Islam and took the name Abdalqadir.
He spent years travelling north Africa, learning from various leading Muslim scholars before founding the orthodox Murabitun Worldwide Movement in the early 1980s.
It now has more than 10,000 committed followers across the world – spread from Denmark to Indonesia – and thousands more who support the movement.
Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, as he is now known, believes the Islam world will conquer the “Jewish dominated” West with an hardline interpretation of Islamic law.
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