Al-Qurtubi

For the surname, see al-Qurtubi (surname).
Abu 'Abdullah al-Qurtubi
Personal
Born1214
Qurtuba, Emirate of Taifa, Andalus
Died29 April 1273
Egypt
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic golden age
RegionAndalus
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceMaliki[1]
CreedAsh'ari[2][3][4]
Main interest(s)Tafsir, fiqh and hadith

Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Anṣārī al-Qurṭubī (Arabic: أبو عبدالله القرطبي) (1214 – 29 April 1273)[5] was an Andalusian Sunni Muslim polymath, Maliki jurisconsult, mufassir, muhaddith and an expert in the Arabic language.[6] He was taught by prominent scholars of Córdoba, Spain and he is well known for his classical commentary of the Quran named Tafsir al-Qurtubi.

  1. ^ Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch., eds. (1986). "al-Ḳurṭubī". The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume V: Khe–Mahi. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 512. ISBN 978-90-04-07819-2.
  2. ^ Namira Nahouza (2018). Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists: Theology, Power and Sunni Islam. I.B. Tauris. p. 154. ISBN 9781838609825. The master of Qur'anic exegetes, Imam Qurtubi (d.671/1273; Rahimahullah), author of 'al-Jami' li Ahkam al-Qur'an', was Ash'ari.
  3. ^ Bennett, Clinton (15 January 2015). The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 128. ISBN 9781472586902. There are many followers of the Ash'ariyyah among the great Muslim scholars, such as al-Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir, al-Sauiti, al-Mazari, Ibn Hajer al Askalani, and al Nawawi
  4. ^ Aaminah-Kulsum Patel (1 July 2022). The Ascent of Adam: Re-Evaluating the First Prophet in Quranic Exegesis. King's College London. p. 33. Al-Qurṭubī and al-Bayḍāwī are contemporaries... who belong the same theological school, the Ashʿarite school.
  5. ^ Nasr, Seyyed Hossein (April 2015). "Commentator key The Study Quran. San Francisco: HarperOne.
  6. ^ Status and Preservation of Hadith: Answering the contentions of orientalists, Christian missionaries and modernists on Hadith pg 49 by Syed Nooruzuha Barmave