Murtada al-Zabidi

Imam
Murtada al-Zabidi
مرتضى الزبيدي
TitleAl-Ḥāfiẓ
Personal
Born1732 (1732)
Bilgram, Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died1790 (aged 57–58)
Cairo, Egypt
ReligionIslam
EraEarly modern period
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi[1]
CreedMaturidi[2]
Main interest(s)Hadith, Lexicography, Linguist, Philology, Genealogy, History, Theology, Tasawwuf, Geography, Medicine
Notable work(s)Tāj al-ʻĀrūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs
Itḥāf al-Sadāh al-Muttaqīn
Asānīd al-Kutub as-Sittah
OccupationMuslim scholar, Muhaddith, philologist, linguist, lexicographergenealogist, biographer, historian, mystic, theologian
Muslim leader
Influenced by

Al-Murtaḍá al-Husaynī al-Zabīdī (Arabic: المرتضى الحسيني الزبيدي), or Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī (1732–1790 / 1145–1205 AH), also known as Murtada al-Zabidi, was an Indian Sunni polymath based in Cairo.[3] He was a Hanafi scholar, hadith specialist, philologist, linguist, lexicographer, genealogist, biographer, historian, mystic and theologian.[4][5][6] He was considered one of the leading intellectuals of the 18th century.[7] He was also regarded as the greatest Hadith scholar of his time and one of the foremost philologists of the Arab post-classical era.[8][9]

  1. ^ Brown, Jonathan (30 September 2007). The Canonization of Al-Bukhārī and Muslim The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon. Brill. p. 237. ISBN 978-90-04-15839-9. The great Indian Hanafi hadith scholar of Cairo, Muhammad Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1205/ 1791)
  2. ^ Jens Hanssen, Max Weiss (22 December 2016). Arabic Thought Beyond the Liberal Age Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda. Cambridge University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-107-13633-5. In Gran's account, the Maturidi polymath and hadith scholar, Muhammad Murtada al-Zabidi (1732–91), who arrived in Cairo from South Asia in 1767
  3. ^ Jens Hanssen, Amal N. Ghazal (11 November 2020). The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History. Oxford University Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-19-967253-0.
  4. ^ Reichmuth, Stefan (2011). "The World of Murtada Al-Zabidi (1732-91) Life, Networks and Writings". The Arab Studies Journal. 19 (1): 142–146. JSTOR 23265818.
  5. ^ Martin, B. G. (13 February 2003). Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa. Cambridge University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-521-53451-2.
  6. ^ Nelly Hanna, Raouf Abbas (November 2005). Society and Economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600-1900 Essays in Honor of André Raymond. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-1-61797-240-9.
  7. ^ Esposito, John L. (27 December 1999). The Oxford History of Islam. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-988041-6.
  8. ^ Voll, John O. (December 1994). Islam Continuity and Change in the Modern World, Second Edition. Syracuse University Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8156-2639-8.
  9. ^ Reichmuth, Stefan (2009-05-04). The World of Murtada Al-Zabidi: 1732-91 Life, Networks and Writings. Gibb Memorial Trust. pp. 54–59. ISBN 9781909724723.