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Majd Ad-Din (other)
Majd ad-Din may refer to: *Majd al-Din Abu'l Fotuh Ahmad Ghazali (1061 – c. 1123), Persian Sufi writer and preacher *Majd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni, or more briefly Usama ibn Munqidh Majd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni al-Kalbī (also Usamah, Ousama, etc.; ar, مجد الدّين اُسامة ابن مُرشد ابن على ابن مُنقذ الكنانى الكلبى) (4 July 1095 – 17 Nove ... (1095–1188), Syrian poet * Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir (1149–1210), Kurdish lexicographer *Abu-t-Tahir Ibn Ibrahim Majd ud-Din ul- Fairuzabadi (1329–1414), Persian lexicographer * Majduddin (fl. 1780-90), Indian Muslim theologian *, Iranian Shia Cleric * Majed Aldin Ghazal (born 1987), Syrian high jumper {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Ghazali
Ahmad Ghazālī ( fa, احمد غزالی; full name Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Fotuḥ Aḥmad Ghazālī) was a Sunni Muslim Persian Sufi mystic, writer, preacher and the head of Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad (c. 1061–1123 or 1126). He is best known in the history of Islam for his ideas on love and the meaning of love, expressed primarily in the book ''Sawāneḥ''. Life The younger brother of the better known theologian, jurist, and Sufi, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, Ahmad Ghazālī was born in a village near Tūs, in Khorasan. Here he was educated primarily in jurisprudence. He turned to Sufism while still young, becoming the pupil first of Abu Bakr Nassaj Tusi (died 1094) and then of Abu Ali Farmadi (died 1084). He was advanced in Sufism by 1095, and his brother Abū Ḥāmid asked him to teach in his place in the Nezamiya of Baghdad and assume responsibility during his planned absence. Ahmad Ghazālī’s thought, centered as it was on the idea of love, left a profoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usama Ibn Munqidh
Majd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni al-Kalbī (also Usamah, Ousama, etc.; ar, مجد الدّين اُسامة ابن مُرشد ابن على ابن مُنقذ الكنانى الكلبى) (4 July 1095 – 17 November 1188) or Ibn Munqidh was a medieval Arab Muslim poet, author, '' faris'' (knight), and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria. His life coincided with the rise of several medieval Muslim dynasties, the arrival of the First Crusade, and the establishment of the crusader states. He was the nephew and potential successor of the emir of Shaizar, but was exiled in 1131 and spent the rest of his life serving other leaders. He was a courtier to the Burids, Zengids, and later Ayyubids in Damascus, serving Zengi, Nur ad-Din, and Saladin over a period of almost fifty years. He also served the Fatimid court in Cairo, as well as the Artuqids in Hisn Kayfa. He travelled extensively in Arab lands, visiting Egypt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majd Ad-Dīn Ibn Athir
Majd ad-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr ash-Shaybānī (1149–1210) () was an historian, biographer and lexicographer. His full name was Abū l-Saʿādāt al-Mubārak b. Muḥammad (al-Athīr) b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Shaybānī al-Jazarī al-Mawṣilī. Majd ad-Dīn was one of three brothers from a wealthy family of scholars, all known as Ibn al-Athīr of Jazirat Ibn ‘Umar and Mosul. The other two being Ali ibn al-Athir and Diyā' ad-Dīn, who was also an historian. The father Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Karim was an official of the Zangid government. Majd al-Dīn was in the service of the emir of Mosul, Ghāzi b. Mawdūd, and later Mas‘ūd b. Mawdūd and Arslan Shāh. Although he became paralysed he continued working and outlived his two brothers. He was a distinguished translator of the Arabic language. The Ibn al-Athīr family were Arab, or Kurdish, of the Shayban lineage of the large and influential Arab tribe Banu Bakr, who lived across upper Mesop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairuzabadi
Firuzabadi ( fa, فیروزآبادی) also spelled as al-Fayrūzabādī ( ar, الفيروزآبادي (1329–1414) was a lexicographer and was the compiler of ''al-Qamous'' (), a comprehensive and, for nearly five centuries, one of the most widely used Arabic dictionaries. Name He was Abū al-Ṭāhir Majīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ya'qūb ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī al-Fīrūzābādī (), known simply as Muḥammad ibn Ya'qūb al-Fīrūzābādī (). His nisbas "al-Shīrāzī" and "al-Fīrūzābādī" refer to the cities of Shiraz (located near Kazerun, his place of birth) and Firuzabad (his father's hometown) in Fars, Persia, respectively. Life Firuzabadi, of Persian origin, was born in Kazerun, Fars, Persia, and educated in Shiraz, Wasit, Baghdad and Damascus. He spent ten years in Jerusalem before travelling in Western Asia and Egypt, and settling in 1368, in Mecca for almost three decades. From Mecca he visited Delhi in the 1380s. He left Mecca in the mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majduddin
Majd ad-Dīn al-Madanī ( ar, ; d. 1813), also known as Madan Shāhjahānpūrī ( ar, ), was an 18th-century Indian Muslim theologian. He served as the first principal of the Aliah University, Calcutta Madrasa, the first Alia Madrasah Education Board, Alia Madrasa of Bengal. Early life and education Majduddin was born in the 18th-century to Tahir al-Husayni in Shahjahanpur district, Shahjahanpur, Bareilly division, greater Bareilly, North India. He studied under Shaykh Wahhaj ad-Din Gupamawi, Wahhaj ad-Din in Gopamau, Hardoi district, Hardoi, who was also the teacher of Muhammad Salih Bengali, It ialso said that Majduddin was a student of Qazi Mubarak, as well as being a senior student of Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, the erstwhile ''Imam al-India, Hind''. In addition to Islamic jurisprudence, Majduddin was trained in rhetoric and logic. Career In the last quarter of the 18th century, British administrators realised that it was essential to learn the various religious, social, and leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
