Al-Zarkashi | |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Born | 1344 CE/745 AH |
| Died | 1392 CE/794 AH |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Era | Mamluk |
| Region | Middle East |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i |
| Creed | Ash'ari[1] |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith studies, Islamic jurisprudence. |
| Occupation | Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist. |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Muhammad |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | Ibn Abdullah ibn Bahādir |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū 'Abdullāh |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | az-Zarkashī |
Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344–1392/ 745–794 AH), better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth century Islamic scholar. He primarily resided in Mamluk-era Cairo. He specialized in the fields of law, hadith, history and Shafi'i legal jurisprudence (fiqh).[2] He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers and only the titles are known.[3] One of his most famous works that has survived is al-Burhan fee 'Uloom al-Qur'an, a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.