Taqi al-Din al-Subki

Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī
TitleSheikh ul-Islam[1]
Qadi al-Qudah[2]
Taqī al-Dīn
Al-Ḥāfiẓ
Personal
Born1284[1]
Subk village, Egypt, Mamluk Sultanate
Died1355 (aged 70–71)[1]
Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate
ReligionIslam
EraMedieval era
RegionEgypt and Levant
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAsh'ari[3][4]
Main interest(s)Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Usul al-Din, Hadith, Usul al-Hadith, Tafsir, Arabic grammar, Linguistic, Rhetoric, Philology, lexicographer, genealogy, History, Tasawwuf, Logic
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced

Abu Al-Hasan Taqī al-Dīn Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi ibn Ali al-Khazraji al-Ansari al-Subkī (Arabic: أبو الحسن تقي الدين علي بن عبد الكافي بن علي الخزرجي الأنصاري السبكي), commonly known as Taqī l-Dīn al-Subkī (Arabic: تقي الدين السبكي) was a Sunni Egyptian polymath and foremost leading Shafi'i jurisconsult, traditionist, Quranic exegete, legal theoretician, theologian, mystic, grammarian, linguist, rhetorician, philologist, lexicographer, genealogist, historian, logician, controversial debater, and researcher of his time. He served as the chief judge of Damascus for 17 years.[5][6][7][8][9] He was the father of the great Taj al-Din al-Subki.[10]

Al-Subki was regarded as one of the most influential and highly acclaimed scholars of the Mamluk period. He was famous for being the leading scholar, judge and teacher of his time.[6][11] He was universally recognized as a mujtahid and was the greatest jurist in the Shafi'i school of his time.[12][13] He was given the special title Sheikh al-Islam for mastering every Islamic field and was a prolific writer who wrote books in every science.[1] His books were considered authoritative, regardless of what science he wrote in.[14]

  1. ^ a b c d Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question, Oxford University Press, 3 May 2012, p 89. ISBN 0199796661
  2. ^ Hoover, Jon (2009). Islamic Universalism: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's Salafi Deliberations on the Duration of Hell-Fire (The Muslim World). Vol. 99. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. p. 184.
  3. ^ Ignaz Goldziher, A short history of classical Arabic literature, Published June 30th 1966 by Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd, p 144.
  4. ^ Keller, The Reliance of the Traveler, Amana Publications, p 1102. ISBN 9780915957729
  5. ^ Yossef Rapoport, Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society, p 101. ISBN 9780521847155
  6. ^ a b Islahi, Abdul Azim (25 October 2012). History of Islamic Economic Thought Contributions of Muslim Scholars to Economic Thought and Analysis. Edward Elgar. p. 43. ISBN 9781784711382.
  7. ^ Leigh Chipman, The World of Pharmacy and Pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo, p. 149. ISBN 9789004176065
  8. ^ Franz Rosenthal, Muslim intellectual and social history: a collection of essays, p 26. ISBN 9780860782575
  9. ^ Gibril Fouad Haddad (2 May 2015). "Taj al-Din al-Subki (727 AH – 771 AH, 44 Years Old)". The Biographies of the Elite Lives of the Scholars, Imams & Hadith Masters. As-Sunnah Foundation of America. pp. 271–272.
  10. ^ Bano, Masooda (16 January 2020). The Revival of Islamic Rationalism - Logic, Metaphysics and Mysticism in Modern Muslim Societies. Cambridge University Press. p. 87. ISBN 9781108485319.
  11. ^ Livingstone, David (16 June 2013). Black Terror White Soldiers - Islam, Fascism & the New Age. CreateSpace. p. 87. ISBN 9781481226509.
  12. ^ Hallaq, Wael B. (23 February 2022). Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam. Taylor & Francis. p. 43. ISBN 9781000585049.
  13. ^ Mahdi Tourage, Ovamir Anjum, ed. (2017). American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. Vol. 34. International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). p. 14.
  14. ^ "Scholar Of Renown: Imam Taqi al-Din Subki". nur.nu.