Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi

Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi
أبو المعين النسفي
TitleHis Bahr al-Kalam has had considerable popularity, and on the title-page of the printed edition he is called:
"Chief of the People of al-Sunna and al-Jama'a,
Sword of the truth and of religion".[1]
Personal
Born418 A.H. = 1027 A.D.
438 A.H. = 1046 A.D.
Died508 A.H. = 1114-5 A.D.
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age
Region Uzbekistan
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedMaturidi
Main interest(s)Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Semantics
Notable work(s)Tabsirat al-Adillah, Bahr al-Kalam
Muslim leader

Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi (Uzbek: Абул-Муин ан-Насафи; Arabic: أبو المعين النسفي) (c.1027-c.1115 A.D.), was considered to be the most important Central Asian Hanafi theologian in the Maturidite school of Sunni Islam after Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, provided a fairly detailed account of al-Maturidi Central Asian predecessors.[2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ Masood Ali Khan and Shaikh Azhar Iqbal (2005). Encyclopaedia of Islam: Religious doctrine of Islam. Commonwealth Publishers, India. p. 128. ISBN 9788131100523.
  2. ^ Bernard G. Weiss (2002). Studies in Islamic Legal Theory. Brill Publishers. p. 237. ISBN 9789004120662.
  3. ^ Oliver Leaman (2015). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 367. ISBN 9781472569455.
  4. ^ Sabine Schmidtke (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford University Press. p. 291. ISBN 9780199696703.
  5. ^ "Abu'l-Mu'in al-Nasafi's understanding of iman and takfir". Academicresearch.net. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019.