Abū Hafs Sirāj al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī( ar, ابو حفص سراج الدين البلقيني الشافعي ; 1324–1403 CE); aka Sirajuddin was an Egyptian scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence. Regarded as the leading

Shafi'i The Shafii ( ar, شَافِعِي, translit=Shāfiʿī, also spelled Shafei) school, also known as Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, is one of the four major traditional schools of religious law (madhhab) in the Sunnī branch of Islam. It was founded by ...

faqih and

mujtahid ''Ijtihad'' ( ; ar, اجتهاد ', ; lit. physical or mental ''effort'') is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a l ...

of his time. He is a prominent scholar of the famous al-Bulqīnī family, which was an influential dynasty of Shāfiʿī judges, law professors, and administrators in Mamlūk Syria and Egypt. His most important work is entitled Tashih al-Minhaj, an explanation of

Al-Nawawi Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī ( ar, أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي;‎ (631A.H-676A.H) (October 1230–21 December 1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī, was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and ...

's Minhaj al-Talibin, a classical manual on Islamic Law according to

fiqh ''Fiqh'' (; ar, فقه ) is Islamic jurisprudence. Muhammad-> Companions-> Followers-> Fiqh. The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...

. After his primary education in Egypt, he traveled to Damascus and was appointed as a

Mufti A Mufti (; ar, مفتي) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion ('' fatwa'') on a point of Islamic law (''sharia''). The act of issuing fatwas is called ''iftāʾ''. Muftis and their ''fatwas'' played an important rol ...

. He has also served as a lecturer at

Al-Azhar Mosque Al-Azhar Mosque ( ar, الجامع الأزهر, al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit=The Resplendent Congregational Mosque, arz, جامع الأزهر, Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the histori ...

. He had a vast number of disciples that the entire Egypt following the Shafe`i school had Ulama who were either his own disciples or disciples of his disciples.

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{{authority control Asharis Shafi'is Egyptian imams Egyptian Sunni Muslims Egyptian Sufis Egyptian theologians Sunni Muslim scholars Sunni imams Shafi'i fiqh scholars 15th-century Egyptian people 15th-century jurists 1324 births 1403 deaths Supporters of Ibn Arabi