Siraj al-Din Urmavi

Not to be confused with Safi al-Din al-Urmawi.
Sirāj al-Dīn Mahmūd ibn Abī Bakr Urmavī
Personal
Born1198 C.E (594 AH)
Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Iran
Died1283 C.E (682 AH)
Konya, Anatolia
(modern-day Turkey)
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAsh'ari[1]
Main interest(s)Ilm ar-Rijal
Muslim leader
Influenced

Sirāj al-Dīn Mahmūd ibn Abī Bakr Urmavī (also spelled Urmawī; 1198–1283) was a Shafiʽi jurist, logician and philosopher from Urmia in Azerbaijan, a region in north-western Iran.[3] He spent most of his scholarly life in Ayyubid-ruled Cairo, and from 1257 in Seljuk-ruled Konya. The Iranian diaspora he was part of, proficient in Persian and Arabic, contributed majorly to the Islamization and Persianization of Anatolia.[4] Most of his extant works were written in Arabic but there is also one known work in Persian.[5] He was an acquintance of Rumi.[6]

  1. ^ Krawietz, Tamer, Birgit, Georges; Holtzman, Livnatz (2013). "Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion): Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Reads Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī". Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law: Debating Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Berlin, Germany: Walter De Gruyter. p. 72. ISBN 978-3-11-028534-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Krawietz, Tamer, Birgit, Georges; Holtzman, Livnatz (2013). "Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion): Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Reads Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī". Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law: Debating Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Berlin, Germany: Walter De Gruyter. p. 72. ISBN 978-3-11-028534-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Marlow 2010, pp. 279–280.
  4. ^ Marlow 2010, pp. 279–280, 305.
  5. ^ Marlow 2010, pp. 282–283.
  6. ^ Çağrıcı, Mustafa (2009). "SİRÂCEDDİN el-URMEVÎ" (PDF). DV Islam Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish). 37: 262–264.