Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini

Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini
TitleShaykh al-Islām[1]
Siraj al-Din
Personal
Born4 August 1324 CE / 724 AH
Bulqina, Gharbia Governorate Egypt
Died1 June 1403 CE / 805 AH
Cairo
ReligionIslam
RegionEgypt
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i
CreedAsh'ari[2]
Main interest(s)Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Sharia
Notable work(s)Tashih al-Minhaj
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Influenced
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)Umar
Patronymic (Nasab)ibn Raslan
Teknonymic (Kunya)Abu Hafs
Epithet (Laqab)Sirāj al-Dīn
Toponymic (Nisba)al-Bulqini, al-Shāfi'ī

Abū Hafs Sirāj al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī (Arabic: أبو حفص سراج الدين البلقيني; c. 1324–1403 CE); also known as just Sirajuddin al-Bulqini was an Egyptian scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence. Regarded as the foremost leading Shafi'i jurist of his time.[3] He was known to have reached ijtihad in the science of jurisprudence.[4]

He is a prominent scholar of the famous al-Bulqīnī family, which was an influential dynasty of Shāfiʿī judges, law professors, and administrators in Mamlūk Syria and Egypt. They were renowned for being the house of knowledge, virtue, leadership and generosity.[5]

  1. ^ The Middle East Documentation Center (MEDOC) At The University Of Chicago (2002). "knowledge.uchicago.edu". Mamlūk Studies Review Vol. VI (2002). 6: 118. doi:10.6082/M1XP7300.
  2. ^ "Some of the names of scholars of the Ash'ari nation". alsunna.org. Archived from the original on 2023-02-08. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  3. ^ David J Wasserstein, Ami Ayalon (17 June 2013). Mamluks and Ottomans Studies in Honour of Michael Winter. Taylor & Francis. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-136-57924-0.
  4. ^ Gibril Fouad Haddad (2 May 2015). THE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ELITE LIVES OF THE SCHOLARS, IMAMS & HADITH MASTERS Biographies of The Imams & Scholars. Zulfiqar Ayub. p. 291.
  5. ^ "al-Bulqini Family". December 2013. Retrieved 2020-04-15.