Safi al-Din al-Hindi

Safi al-Din al-Hindi
صفي الدين الهِنْدي
TitleImam al-Mutakallimin
Personal
Born1246-47 [1]
Died1315-16 [2]
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAsh'ari
Main interest(s)Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Usul al-Fiqh (principles of jurisprudence), Usul al-Din, Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Logic
Muslim leader

Safi al-Din al-Hindi al-Urmawi (Arabic: صفي الدين الهندي الأرموي) was a prominent Indian Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar and rationalist theologian.

Al-Hindi was brought in to debate at Ibn Taymiyya during the second hearing in Damascus in 1306. Taj al-Din al-Subki, in his Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra, reports him to have said: "Oh Ibn Taymiyya, I see that you are only like a sparrow. Whenever I want to grab it, it escapes from one place to another."[4]

He was praised by Taj al-Din al-Subki, Al-Safadi, Shihab al-Din al-'Umari, Shams al-Din ibn al-Ghazzi, and 'Abd al-Hayy al-Hasani.

  1. ^ Taqi al-Din al-Subki. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra. pp. 9:163.
  2. ^ Hoover, Jon (2020). Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God's Attributes. pp. 195–230. doi:10.1163/9789004426610_009. ISBN 9789004426610. S2CID 219026357.
  3. ^ Taj al-Din al-Subki. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra. pp. 9:163.
  4. ^ Ayman Shihadeh, Jan Thiele (2020). Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ash'arism East and West. Brill Publishers. pp. 211–216. ISBN 9789004426610.