Al-Qushayri | |
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| Title | Shaykh al-Islām |
| Personal | |
| Born | 986 (AH 376)[1] |
| Died | 30 December 1072 (AH 465)[1] |
| Religion | Islam |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i[2] |
| Creed | Ash'ari[1][2] |
| Main interest(s) | Tasawwuf, Islamic theology, Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Hadith, Tafsir, Grammar |
| Notable work(s) | Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya |
| Occupation | Muhaddith, Mufassir, Scholar, Muslim jurist, Theologian, Sufi |
| Muslim leader | |
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'Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawazin Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī (Persian: عبدالکریم قُشَیری, Arabic: عبد الكريم بن هوازن بن عبد الملك بن طلحة أبو القاسم القشيري; 986 – 30 December 1072) was an Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, jurist, legal theoretician, commentator of the Qur’an, muhaddith, grammarian, spiritual master, orator, poet, and an eminent scholar who mastered a number of Islamic sciences.[3] Al-Qushayri, combined the routine instruction of a Shafi'i law specialist and Hadith expert (muhaddith) with a solid slant to mysticism and ascetic lifestyle.[4]
He was born in Nishapur which is in Khorasan Province in Iran. This region was widely known as a center of Islamic civilization up to the 13th Century CE.[5] He was the grandfather of the hadith scholar Abd al-Ghafir al-Farsi, a student of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni.[6]
- ^ a b c d e Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. (1986). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. V (Khe-Mahi) (New ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 526. ISBN 9004057455.
- ^ a b Spevack, Aaron (2014). The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of Al-Bajuri. State University of New York Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-1438453712.
- ^ Shah, Zulfiqar A. (2014). Ifta' and Fatwa in the Muslim World and the West. International Institute of Islamic Thought. pp. 106–19. ISBN 9781565644830.
- ^ Knysh, Alexander (19 March 2019). Sufism A New History of Islamic Mysticism. Princeton University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9780691191621.
- ^ "Bayazid al-Bistami". World of Tasawwuf. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ^ Ibn Khallikan (1999). Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 2. Translated by William McGuckin de Slane. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 170.