Al-Zarkashi | |
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Personal | |
Born | 1344 CE/745 AH |
Died | 1392 CE/794 AH |
Religion | Islam |
Nationality | Egyptian |
Era | Mamluk |
Region | Middle East |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Shafi'i |
Creed | Ash'ari[1] |
Main interest(s) | Hadith studies, Islamic jurisprudence. |
Occupation | Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist. |
Arabic name | |
Personal (Ism) | Muhammad |
Patronymic (Nasab) | Ibn Abdullah ibn Bahādir |
Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū 'Abdullāh |
Toponymic (Nisba) | az-Zarkashī |
Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344–1392/ 745–794 AH), better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth century Islamic scholar. He primarily resided in Mamluk-era Cairo. He specialized in the fields of law, hadith, history and Shafi'i legal jurisprudence (fiqh).[2] He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers and only the titles are known.[3] One of his most famous works that has survived is al-Burhān fī 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān, a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.