Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi

Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī
(أَبُو مَنْصُورالبغدادي)
TitleImam
Personal
Bornc. 980
Died1037 (429 AH)[1]
(aged c. 56–57)
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic golden age
RegionKhorasan
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i[1]
CreedAsh'ari[2][3]
Main interest(s)Theology (Kalam), Islamic Jurisprudence, Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, Arabic grammar, Mathematic
Notable work(s)Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq
Kitab Uṣul al-Din
OccupationTheologian, Scholar, Jurist, Legal theoretician, Grammarian, Heresiologist, Mathematician
Muslim leader

Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn Ṭāhir bin Muḥammad bin ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī al-Shāfiʿī al-Baghdādī (Arabic: أبو منصور عبدالقاهر ابن طاهر بن محمد بن عبدالله التميمي الشافعي البغدادي), more commonly known as Abd al-Qāhir al-Baghdādī (عبد القاهر البغدادي) or simply Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī (أَبُو مَنْصُورالبغدادي) was an Arab[4] Sunni scholar from Baghdad. He was considered a leading Ash'arite theologian and Shafi'i jurist. He was an accomplished legal theoretician, man of letters, poet, prosodist, grammarian, heresiologist and mathematician.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b c d Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch., eds. (1960). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 909. OCLC 495469456.
  2. ^ Anthony, Sean (2011). The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Sabaʾ and the Origins of Shīʿism. Brill. p. 72. ISBN 978-9004216068.
  3. ^ Adang, Camilla; Fierro, Maribel; Schmidtke, Sabine (2012). Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Handbook of Oriental Studies) (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. p. 387. ISBN 978-90-04-23424-6.
  4. ^ "Al-Baghdadi biography". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk.
  5. ^ Gibril Fouad Haddad 2015, p. 185
  6. ^ Böwering & Orfali 2015, p. 3