Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi ( ar, جمال الدين الغَزْنَوي), was a Sunni

Hanafi The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named a ...

jurist,

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, and

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scholar of the

Maturidi Māturīdī theology or Māturīdism ( ar, الماتريدية: ''al-Māturīdiyyah'') is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Persian Muslim scholar, Ḥanafī jurist, reformer (''Mujaddid''), and scholastic ...

school.

Name

Jamal al-Din Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Mahmud b. Sa'id b. Nuh al-Qabisi, widely known as al-Taj al-Hanafi, it has also been said his name was Muhammad instead of Ahmad.

Birth

The date of his birth is unknown, nor are there many authentic circumstances related of his life.

Life

Not much of his early academic life is known nor documented except that many have mentioned his knowledge and his written works. He lived in Aleppo for a period of time, and worked as a lecturer at al-Madrasa al-Nuriyya.

Teachers

Amongst his teachers was 'Ala' al-Din al-Kasani, author of Bada'i al-Sana'i (d. 587/1191), who died about a hundred years after Sarakhsi.

Books

Among his printed works are: * Kitab Usul al-Din, The Book of the Principles of Religion (

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). * Al-Hawi al-Qudsi fi Furu' al-Fiqh al-Hanafi, called so because written in

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(al-Quds). and many more other works.

Death

He died in 593 A.H. = 1196/7 A.D. in Aleppo, Syria. And he was buried near the tomb of

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, according to Ibn al-'Adim, in his book "Bughyat al-Talab fi Tarikh Halab".

References

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