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List Of Muslim Theologians
This is a list of notable Muslim theologians. Traditional theologians and philosophers Ash'aris and Maturidis * Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari * Abu Mansur al-Maturidi * Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi * Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi * Ibn Hibban * Ibn Furak * Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi * Abu Ishaq al-Isfara'ini * Abu al-Walid al-Baji * Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi * Adud al-Din al-Iji * 'Ala al-Din al-Baji * Al-Bayhaqi * Al-Baqillani * Al-Qushayri * Al-Shahrastani * Al-Juwayni * Ahmad al-Rifa'i * Al-Ghazali * Al-Baydawi * Al-Maziri * Ali Qushji * Ali al-Qari * Al-Sharif al-Jurjani * Diya' al-Din al-Makki * Fakhr al-Din al-Razi * Sayf al-Din al-Amidi * Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam * Taqi al-Din al-Subki * Ibrahim al-Desuqi * Taj al-Din al-Subki * Jalal al-Din al-Dawani * Zakariyya al-Ansari * Ibn Aqil * Ibn al-Jawzi * Ibn Khaldun * Ibn Tumart * Ibn Arafa * Ibn Ashir * 'Illish * Ibn Abi Zayd * Qadi Ayyad * Ibn Hajar al-Haytami * Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi * Najm al-Din 'Umar al-Nasafi * Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Al-Rifa'i
Ahmad () is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other English spellings of the name include Ahmed. It is also used as a surname. Etymology The word derives from the root ( ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the verb (''ḥameda'', "to thank or to praise"), non-past participle (). Lexicology As an Arabic name, it has its origins in a Quranic prophecy attributed to Jesus in the Quran which most Islamic scholars concede is about Muhammad. It also shares the same roots as Mahmud, Muhammad, Hamed, and Hamad. In its transliteration, the name has one of the highest number of spelling variations in the world. Some Islamic traditions view the name Ahmad as another given name of Muhammad at birth by his mother, considered by Muslims to be the more esoteric name of Muhammad and central to understanding his nature. Over the centuries, some Islamic scholars have suggested the name's parallel is in the word 'Paraclete' from the Biblical text,"Isa" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taj Al-Din Al-Subki
Abū Naṣr Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī (), or Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī () or simply Ibn al-Subki (1327–1370) was a leading Sunni Islamic scholar based in Egypt and Levant. He was a highly regarded jurisconsult, hadith expert, historian, grammarian, scriptural exegete, theologian, logician, researcher, literary writer, preacher, judge, debater and one of the greatest legal theoretician in the Shafi'i school. Although he died aged 44, he was considered one of the best scholars of his day and held some of the highest academic positions ever documented in the medieval history of Syria. He became well-known and respected for his academic achievements, rising to the rank of mujtahid in jurisprudence and its principles. Taj al-Din produced many works in various fields of science. The Subkis were a highly influential and prestigious dynasty, and a powerhouse of knowledge. The reflections on the many members lives demonstrate what a uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Al-Desuqi
'Ibrahīm Bin ʿAbd-El-ʿAzīz 'Abu al-Magd (), better known as El Desouki (الدسوقي) (1255 in Desouk, Egypt – 1296), was an Egyptian Imam and the founder of the Desouki Order. Life El Desouki was born in Desouk on the Nile delta and lived there his whole life, hence his attribution to it. According to traditions and popular sayings, he is a descendant of Ali ibn Abi Talib from his paternal side through Ali al-Hadi. El Desouki was influenced by the Shadhili Sufi order founded by his uncle Abu al-Hasan Shadhili and was as well close to his contemporary Sufi Ahmad al-Badawi of Tanta. He became Sheikh ul-Islam of Egypt during Baibars' rule. His feast is celebrated twice a year: the first during April, and the second on October the 2nd. Municipality of Desouk. See also * |
Taqi Al-Din Al-Subki
Abu Al-Hasan Taqī al-Dīn Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi ibn Ali al-Khazraji al-Ansari al-Subkī (), commonly known as Taqī l-Dīn al-Subkī () was a Sunni Egyptian polymath and foremost leading Shafi'i jurisconsult, traditionist, Quranic exegete, legal theoretician, theologian, mystic, grammarian, linguist, rhetorician, philologist, lexicographer, genealogist, historian, logician, controversial debater, and researcher of his time. He served as the chief judge of Damascus for 17 years.Yossef Rapoport, Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society, p 101. He was the father of the great Taj al-Din al-Subki. Al-Subki was regarded as one of the most influential and highly acclaimed scholars of the Mamluk period. He was famous for being the leading scholar, judge and teacher of his time. He was universally recognized as a mujtahid and was the greatest jurist in the Shafi'i school of his time. He was given the special title '' Sheikh al-Islam'' for mastering every Islamic f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izz Al-Din Ibn 'Abd Al-Salam
Abū Muḥammad ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd al-Salām bin Abī al-Qāsim bin Ḥasan al-Sulamī al-Shāfiʿī (; 577 AH - 660 AH / 1262 CE), also known by his titles, Sultan al-'Ulama/ Sulthanul Ulama, Abu Muhammad al-Sulami, was a famous mujtahid, Ash'ari theologian, jurist and the leading Shafi'i authority of his generation.العز بن عبد السلام، محمد الزحيلي � ص19-22 He was described by as someone who attained the rank of ijtihad, with asceticism and piety and the command of virtue and forbidding of what is evil and solidity in religion. He was described by Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali as the shei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayf Al-Din Al-Amidi
Sayf al-Din al-Amidi or Muhammad al-Amidi (b. 1156; Diyarbakır - d. 1233 in Damascus) was an influential Muslim jurist. Initially a Hanbalite, Al-Amidi belonged to the Shafi`i school and worked to combine ''kalam'' (theology) with existing methods of jurisprudence. Personal life and education Al-Amidi was born in Āmid (Diyarbakır) and studied Shafi'i law in his village, according to al-Qifṭī. While some sources claim that he was an Arab from the tribe of Taghlib, some claim that he was Kurdish. He later traveled to Baghdad to join the learning circle of the famous Shafi teacher Ibn Fadlan. In Baghdad al-Amidi focused his studies on theoretical jurisprudence and he transferred from the Shafi school to the Hanbali school. eiss, Bernard. The search for God's law: Islamic jurisprudence in the writings of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī. Univ of Utah Pr, 1992. Print./ref> Along with the influence of Ibn Fadlan al-Amidi was prompted to join the Shafi school due to his interest in Ash� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī () or Fakhruddin Razi () (1149 or 1150 – 1209), often known by the sobriquet Sultan of the Theologians, was an influential Iranian and Muslim polymath, scientist and one of the pioneers of inductive logic. He wrote various works in the fields of medicine, chemistry, physics, astronomy, cosmology, literature, theology, ontology, philosophy, history and jurisprudence. He was one of the earliest proponents and skeptics that came up with the concept of multiverse, and compared it with the astronomical teachings of Quran. A rejector of the geocentric model and the Aristotelian notions of a single universe revolving around a single world, al-Razi argued about the existence of the outer space beyond the known world. Al-Razi was born in Ray, Iran, and died in Herat, Afghanistan.. He left a very rich corpus of philosophical and theological works that reveals influence from the works of Avicenna, Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī and al-Ghazali. Two of his works t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diya' Al-Din Al-Makki
Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn ʿUmar b. al-Ḥusayn al-Makkī, also known as Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn al-Makkī () was a well-known Ash'arite theologian and Shafi'i jurist. His primary distinction is that he was the father and the first teacher of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, one of the most significant theologians and philosophers in Islamic history. Name His name Makki is rooted from his family background who left Mecca and migrated first to Tabaristan and from there they settled the nearby city of Rey. Life About his life, not much is known. He studied Ash'rai theology and Quranic interpretation with Abu al-Qasim al-Ansari, the leading Ash'arite figure in the Muslim East, following the death of his master al-Juwayni. Naturally, this study had to have happened in Nishapur, most likely at the Nizamiyya school, where al-Ansari was employed as a librarian. Al-Makki studied Shafi'i law under the esteemed Shafi'i scholar al-Baghawi in Merv based in Khorasan. Al-Makki assumed the role of preacher in Rey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Sharif Al-Jurjani
Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani (1339–1414) (Persian ) was a Persian encyclopedic writer, scientist, and traditionalist theologian. He is referred to as "al-Sayyid al-Sharif" in sources due to his alleged descent from Ali ibn Abi Taleb. He was born in the village of Ṭāḡu near Astarabad in Gorgan (hence the ''nisba'' "Jurjani"), and became a professor in Shiraz. When this city was plundered by Timur in 1387, he moved to Samarkand, but returned to Shiraz in 1405, and remained there until his death. The author of more than fifty books, of his thirty-one extant works, many being commentaries on other works, one of the best known is the ''Taʿrīfāt'' (تعريفات "Definitions"),Kitâb Ta`rîfat al-`ulûm wa tahqîqât r-rusûm, Edition critique: Abdelmoula HAGIL, Paris, 2019, 536p. which was edited by G Flügel (Leipzig, 1845), published also in Constantinople (1837), Cairo (1866, etc.), and St Petersburg (1897). See also * List of people from Gorgan * List of Hanafis * Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Al-Qari
Nur ad-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sultan Muhammad al-Hirawi al-Qari (; d. 1605/1606), known as Mulla Ali al-Qari () was an Afghan Islamic scholar. He was born in Herat, where he received his basic Islamic education. Thereafter, he travelled to Mecca and studied under the scholar Shaykh Ahmad Ibn Hajar al-Haytami Makki, and al-Qari eventually decided to remain in Mecca where he taught, died and was buried. He is considered in Hanafi circles to be one of the masters of hadith and imams of fiqh, Qur'anic commentary, language, history and tasawwuf. He was a hafiz (memoriser of the Quran The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which ...) and a famous calligrapher who wrote a Quran by hand every year. Al-Qari wrote several books, including the commentary ''al-Mirqat'' on '' Mish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Qushji
Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed (1403 – 18 December 1474), known as Ali Qushji (Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish : علی قوشچی, ''kuşçu'' – falconry, falconer in Turkish language, Turkish; Latin: ''Ali Kushgii'') was a Timurid Empire, Timurid Schools of Islamic theology, theologian, Mufti, jurist, Islamic astronomy, astronomer, Islamic mathematics, mathematician and Islamic physics, physicist, who settled in the Ottoman Empire some time before 1472. As a disciple of Ulugh Beg, he is best known for the development of Astrophysics, astronomical physics independent from natural philosophy, and for providing empirical evidence for the Earth's rotation in his treatise, ''Concerning the Supposed Dependence of Astronomy upon Philosophy''. In addition to his contributions to Ulugh Beg's famous work Zij-i-Sultani and to the founding of Sahn-ı Seman Medrese, one of the first centers for the study of various traditional Islamic sciences in the Ottoman Empire, Ali Kuş ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
