Zarkashi
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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
- P13311
- Bibiana Beglau
Sources (2)
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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
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- 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.
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