Abū al-Thanā’ Shihāb ad-Dīn Sayyid Maḥmūd ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Ālūsī al-Baghdādī ( ar, أبو الثناء شهاب الدين سيد محمود بن عبد الله بن محمود الحسيني الآلوسي البغدادي; 10 December 1802 – 29 July 1854 CE) was an
Iraqi Islamic scholar
In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...
best known for writing ''
Ruh al-Ma`ani'', an
exegesis
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(''tafsir'') of the
Qur'an
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.
Biography
He was born in
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
on the day of Jumu`ah, 14 Sha`ban 1217
AH (Friday, 10 December 1802).
He died on 5 Dhul-Q'dah, 1270 AH (29 July 1854)
Works
An exhaustive list of all his works far to long and thus difficult to compile. Indexes in the
British Library
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and the Below are a few examples:
*''
Rūḥ al-ma‘ānī fī tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-‘aẓīm wa-al-sab‘ al-mathānī'' ()
*''Nashwat al-shamūl fī al-safar ilā Islāmbūl'' ()
*''Nashwat al-mudām fī al-‘awd ilá Madīnat al-Salām'' ()
*''al-Ajwibah al-‘Irāqīyah ‘alá al-as’ilah al-Lāhūrīyah'' ()
*''al-Ajwibah al-‘Irāqīyah ‘an al-as’ilah al-Īrānīyah'' ()
*''Ghra'b al-'Ightirab'' ()
*''Daqaiq al-Tafsir'' ()
*''Sharh Sullam al-Mantiq'' ()
*''al-Tiraz al-Mudh-hab Fi Sharh Qasydat al-Baz al-Ash-hab'' ()
*''al-Maqamat al-Alousiya'' ()
Legacy
Left a legacy of five sons:
Sayid Abdullah Bha'uldin Al-Alousi, Sayid Sa'd Abdulbaqi Al-Alousi,
Abu Albrakat Sayid Nu'man Khayruldin Al-Alousi, Sayid Mohammad Hamid Afandi and
Sayid Ahmed Shakir Afandi
References
1802 births
1854 deaths
Writers from Baghdad
Iraqi Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Quranic exegesis scholars
19th-century Arabs
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