Abu Ja'far al-Tusi | |
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| Title | Shaykh al-Ta'ifah |
| Personal | |
| Born | 385 H/ 995 CE |
| Died | 460 H/ 1067 CE (aged 72) |
| Religion | Islam |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Denomination | Shia |
| Jurisprudence | Ja'fari |
| Creed | Twelver |
| Main interest(s) | Kalam, Tafsir, Hadith, Ilm ar-Rijal, Usul and Fiqh |
| Notable idea(s) | Hawza of Najaf |
| Notable work(s) | Tahdhib al-Ahkam, Al-Istibsar, Al-Tibyan |
| Muslim leader | |
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Shaykh Tusi (Persian: شیخ طوسی), full name Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi (Arabic: ابو جعفر محمد بن الحسن الطوسي, romanized: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī), known as Shaykh al-Ta'ifah (Arabic: شيخ الطائفة, romanized: Shaykh al-Ṭāʾifah) was a prominent Persian[1] scholar of the Twelver school of Shia Islam. He was known as the "sheikh of the sect (shaikh al-ta'ifah)", author of two of the four main Shi'i books of hadith, Tahdhib al-Ahkam and al-Istibsar, and is believed to have founded the hawza.[2] He is also one of the pioneering scholars of Shiite ʾUṣūl al-Fiqh and considered "a cardinal founder of ijtihad".[3][4]