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Al-Juwaynī
Dhia' ul-Dīn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī al-Shafi'ī (, 17 February 102820 August 1085; 419–478 AH) was a Persian Sunni scholar famous for being the foremost leading jurisconsult, legal theoretician and Islamic theologian of his time. His name is commonly abbreviated as al-Juwayni; he is also commonly referred to as ''Imam al-Haramayn'' meaning "leading master of the two holy cities", that is, Mecca and Medina.M. M. Sharif, A History of Muslim Philosophy, 1.242. He acquired the status of a mujtahid in the field of fiqh and usul al-fiqh. Highly celebrated as one of the most important and influential thinkers in the Shafi'i school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence, he was considered as the virtual second founder of the Shafi'i school, after its first founder Imam al-Shafi'i. He was also considered a major figurehead within the Ash'ari school of theology where he was ranked equal to the founder, Imam al-Ash'ari. He was given the honorific titles of '' Shaykh of Islam ...
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Islam
Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world's Major religious groups, second-largest religious population after Christians. Muslims believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a Fitra, primordial faith that was revealed many times through earlier Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophets and messengers, including Adam in Islam, Adam, Noah in Islam, Noah, Abraham in Islam, Abraham, Moses in Islam, Moses, and Jesus in Islam, Jesus. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of God in Islam, God and the unaltered, final revelation. Alongside the Quran, Muslims also believe in previous Islamic holy books, revelations, such as the Torah in Islam, Tawrat (the Torah), the Zabur (Psalms), and the Gospel in Islam, Injil (Gospel). They believe that Muhammad in Islam ...
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Book Of Demonstration On Jurisprudence
Al-Burhan Fi Usul al-Fiqh () or The Proof in the Principles of Jurisprudence is a 12th-century treatise written by Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni the leading legal theorist of his time. A highly celebrated work of Al-Juwayni on Usul Al-Fiqh. It is regarded as one of the four pillars of the field of legal theory. The other three including 1. Al-Ghazali who authored al-Mustasfa fi 'ilm al-isul 2. Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar who authored al-Qadi's al-`Umad; 3. Abu al-Husayn al-Basri who authored al-Basri's al-Mu`tamad (commentary on al-`Umad). Content This book discusses in detail the science of principles of jurisprudence which consists of eight main discussions, namely Al-Bayan (lucidity), Al-Ijma (consensus), Al-Qiyas (analogical reasoning), Al-Istidlal (deduction), Al-Tarihat (observation), Al-Naskh (abrogation), Al-Ijtihad (independent reasoning) and Al-Fatwa (ruling). The writing of the book begins with a discussion on how to learn a science in its Introduction and then followed ...
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Nishapur
Nishapur or Neyshabur (, also ) is a city in the Central District (Nishapur County), Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan province, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Nishapur is the second most populous city of the province in the northeast of Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot of Binalud Mountains, Binalud Mountain Range. It has been the historic capital of the Western Quarter of Greater Khorasan, the historic Capitals of Persia, capital of the 9th-century Tahirid dynasty, the initial capital of the 11th-century Seljuk Empire, and is currently the capital city of Nishapur County and a historic Silk Road city of Greater Iran, cultural and Economy of Iran, economic importance in Iran and the Greater Khorasan region. Nearby are turquoise mines that have supplied the world with turquoise of the finest and the highest quality for at least two millennia. The city was founded in the 3rd century by ...
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Jowayin County
Joveyn County () is in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Neqab. History After the 2006 National Census, Joveyn District was separated from Sabzevar County Sabzevar County () is in Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Sabzevar. History After the 2006 National Census, Joghatai, Joveyn, and Khoshab Districts were separated from the county in the establishment of three c ... in the establishment of Joveyn County, which was divided into two districts of two rural districts each, with Neqab as its capital and only city at the time. After the 2016 census, the village of Hokmabad was elevated to the status of a city. Demographics Population At the time of the 2011 census, the county's population was 54,139 people in 15,400 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the county as 54,488 in 16,738 households. Administrative divisions Joveyn County's population history and administrative structure over two ...
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Abu Al-Hasan Al-Tabari
Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tabari, born in Amol, was a 10th-century Persian physician from Tabaristan. He was the physician of Rukn al-Dawla, a Buyid ruler. He was author of a compendium of medicine ''Kitab al-mu'alaja al-buqratiya'' (Hippocratic treatments), in ten books. It is extant only in Arabic language. Tabari has written valuable articles on different medical sciences; however, he is especially famous for authoring the al-Mu'alajat al-Buqratiya (Hippocratic Treatments) - an important medical encyclopedia. Several of Al-Tabari's succeeding scholars and physician have referred to the al-Mu'alajat al-Buqratiya in their medical articles. The aim of this study is further introduction of this great physician and assessment of his theories and key works. Sources * F. Wüstenfeld, ''Arabschen Aerzte'' (56, 1840). See also *Medicine in the medieval Islamic world *List of Iranian scientists The following is a list of Iranian scientists, engineers, and scholars who liv ...
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Abd Al-Ghafir Al-Farsi
Abd al-Ghafir ibn Ismail ibn Abd al-Ghafir ibn Muhammad al-Farsi () was a renowned Persian Sunni muhaddith, historian and grammarian of the highest rank. He was a student of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni. He was contemporary, and first biographer of Imam Al-Ghazali.Griffel, Frank (2009). Al-Ghazālī's Philosophical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Page 21 He was also the grandson of the great Imam Al-Qushayri. Biography He was born within the year 451/1058 and at the age of five, he was able to ponder the Qur'an and might rehash the statement of creed in his local dialect (Persian). He considered the Shafi'i statute with incredible concentration for four years beneath Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni, the author of Nihayat al-Matlab, which is a treatise on the convention of the Shafi'i school and on the focuses of contention. He was a daughter son of the Imam Abu Kasim al-Khusairi and learned from him a extraordinary amount of hadiths, as too from his grandmother Fatima, t ...
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Abu Al-Qasim Al-Ansari
al-Anṣārī, Abū l-Qāsim Salmān b. Nāṣir b. 'Imrān al-Arghiyānī al-Nīsābūrī al-Ṣūfī al-Shāfi'ī (), commonly known as Abu al-Qasim al-Ansari, was a Persian Sunni scholar known for being an Ash'arite theologian, Shafi'i jurist, traditionist, scriptural exegete and mystic during the Islamic Golden Age. He was the famous pupil of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni and greatly influenced by him, as can be seen by his own theological writings. He was referred to as Sayf al-Nazr (). As a Muslim scholar of the Sunni branch and Shafi'i school, his studies covered the fields of Islamic theology, Usul al-Din (principles of faith), Shafi'i jurisprudence, Sufism, Interpretation of Quran, and the studies of Hadith. Among his most prominent students were Al-Shahrastani, the author of ''Al-Milal wa al-Nihal'', and Ibn al-Sam'ani, the author of '' Kitab al-Ansab''. He lived under the Abbasid Caliphate, between the second half of the fifth century AH and beginning of the sixth c ...
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Al-Kiya Al-Harrasi
al-Kiyā al-Harrāsī, S̲h̲ams al-Islām ʿImād ad-Dīn Abû ’l-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī aṭ-Ṭabarī (), commonly known as al-Kiya al-Harrasi was a prominent Shafi'i jurisconsult, legal theoretician, traditionist, scriptural exegete, preacher, orator, judge, and Ash'ari theologian, a dialectician who was once regarded as among the foremost practitioners of disputation. He was the famous pupil of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni and the class-mate of Al-Ghazali. Early life He was born in the year 450 AH/1058 CE in the region of Tabaristan and studied under the ulama. He departed from his native land to seek knowledge at the age of eighteen years to Nishapur and studied jurisprudence under the direction of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni until he excelled in Islamic law. He was handsome, his voice was clear and loud, his manner was elegant, and his language was appealing. Career He then proceeded to the town of Bayhaq, where he spent several years teaching the doctrine ...
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Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali ( – 19 December 1111), archaically Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsults, legal theoreticians, muftis, philosophers, theologians, logicians and mystics in Islamic history. He is considered to be the 11th century's '' mujaddid'',William Montgomery Watt, ''Al-Ghazali: The Muslim Intellectual'', p. 180. Edinburgh University Press, 1963. a renewer of the faith, who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every 100 years to restore the faith of the Islamic community.Dhahabi, Siyar, 4.566 Al-Ghazali's works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that he was awarded the honorific title "Proof of Islam" ('' Ḥujjat al-Islām''). Al-Ghazali was a prominent mujtahid in the Shafi'i school of law. Much of Al-Ghazali's work stemmed around his spiritual crises following his appointment as the head of the Nizamiyya University in Baghdad - which was ...
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Al-Bayhaqi
Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Khusrawjirdī al-Bayhaqī (, 994–1066), also known as Imām al-Bayhaqī, was a Sunni scholar widely known for being the foremost leading hadith master in his age, leading authority in the Shafi'i school, leading authority on the foundation of doctrine, meticulous, a devoted ascetic and one of the notable defenders of the Ash'ari school. Al-Dhahabi said: "Unequalled in his age, unrivalled amongst his peers, and the Ḥāfiẓ of his time."The Creed of Imam Bayhaqi An Abridged Translation of al-I`tiqad wa'l-Hidayah ila Sabil ar-Rashad. Together with Saeed Fodeh's Synopsis of Bayhaqi's Text page editor's introduction Early life Birth Al-Bayhaqi was born c. 994 CE/384 AH in the small town of Khosrowjerd near Sabzevar, then known as Bayhaq, in Khorasan. Education Al-Bayhaqi spent his early years and childhood in the city of Bayhaq before moving elsewhere to pursue his studies. He journeyed throughout Khorazan, Iran, Ira ...
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Abu Muhammad Al-Juwayni
Al-Juwayni, `Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn `Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Hayyuya, Rukn al-Din Abu Muhammad al-Ta'i al-Sinbisi al-Naysaburi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Juwayni (), was a Sunni scholar based in Khorasan. He was a leading jurist ('' faqih''), legal theoretician (''usuli''), Arabic grammarian, ('' nahwi''), Qu'ran exegete (''mufassir'') and a scholar of theology, man of letters, and Hadith. He was the father of the great Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni. Early life He was born in the villages of Juwayn in modern-day northeastern Iran, grew up in there, and read literature under his father Yusuf bin Abdullah, Abi Yaqoub. He studied Shafi'i jurisprudence in Naysabur with Abu al-Tayyib al-Su`luki and in Merv with Abu Bakr al-Qaffal al-Marwazi. He also studied Hadith from Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, Ibn Mahmish, Abu al-Husayn ibn Bishran, and others. Scholarly life Career He settled in Nishapur after his intense educational journeys and began to is ...
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Abu Al-Hasan Al-Ash'ari
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (; 874–936 CE) was an Arab Muslim theologian known for being the eponymous founder of the Ash'ari school of kalam in Sunnism. Al-Ash'ari was notable for taking an intermediary position between the two diametrically opposed schools of Islamic theology prevalent at the time: Atharism and Mu'tazilism. He primarily opposed the Mu'tazili theologians on God's eternal attributes and Quranic createdness. On the other hand, the Hanbalis and traditionists were opposed to the use of philosophy or speculative theology, and condemned any theological debate altogether. Al-Ash'ari established a middle way between the doctrines of the aforementioned schools, based both on theological rationalism (''kalam'') and the interpretation of the Quran and Sunna. His school eventually became the predominant school of theological thought within Sunni Islam.Abdullah Saeed ''Islamic Thought: An Introduction'' Routledge 2006 chapter 5 By contrast, Shia Muslims do not ac ...
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