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Also known as al-Zarkashi, Muḥammad ibn Bahādur Zarkashī, Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir 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). He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers, and only the titles are known. One of his most famous works that has survived is ''al-Burhān fī 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān'', a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.

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Born
1344 or 5
Died
1392
Works
46

Top works

  • Muʻtabar fī takhrīj aḥādīth al-minhāj wa-al-mukhtaṣar
  • al-Ijābah lā yurād mā istadrakatʹhu ʻĀʼishah ʻalá al-ṣiḥābah
  • al-Nukat ʻalá Muqaddimat Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ
  • Tashnīf al-masāmiʻ bi-Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ li-Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī
  • Khabāyā al-zawāyā

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Key facts

Religious biography.religion
Islam
Religious biography.birth_date
1344 CE/745 AH
Religious biography.birth_place
Egypt
Religious biography.death_date
1392 CE/794 AH
Religious biography.nationality
Egyptian
Religious biography.era
Mamluk
Religious biography.region
Middle East
Religious biography.occupation
Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist.
Religious biography.denomination
Sunni
Religious biography.jurisprudence
Shafi'i
Religious biography.creed
Ash'ari
Religious biography.main_interests
Hadith studies, Islamic jurisprudence.
Arabic name.embed
yes
Arabic name.ism
Muhammad
Arabic name.nasab
Ibn Abdullah ibn Bahādir
Arabic name.kunya
Abū 'Abdullāh
Arabic name.nisba
az-Zarkashī

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Muhammad
Gender
male
Citizenship
Egypt
Place of birth
Cairo
Place of death
Egypt
Occupation
writer
Languages spoken
Arabic
Religion
Ash'ari
Student of
Ibn Rajab
Field of work
Quranic studies
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date of birth
1344-01-01
date of death
1392-01-01
name in native language
الزركشي
madhhab
Shafi'i
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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Zarkashi, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Teachers
  • Disciples
  • Works
  • See also
  • References

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). He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers, and only the titles are known. One of his most famous works that has survived is ''al-Burhān fī 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān'', a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.

==Teachers== Az-Zarkashī studied hadīth (one of various reports describing the words, actions, or habits of the prophet Muhammad) in Damascus with Imād al-Dīn Ibn Kathir (d. 1373), fiqh and usūl in Aleppo with Shihāb ud-Dīn Al-Adhra`I (d. 1381), and Quran and fiqh in Cairo with the head of the Shafi’i school in Cairo at the time, Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zarkashi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.