Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Umar
al-Khafaji ( ar, شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد بن عمر الخفاجي) an
Egyptian
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** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of ...
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 ...
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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 ...
scholar and
poet
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who spent some time in
Istanbul
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and while there was appointed
Qadi al-Qudah (
chief judge
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) of
Egypt
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.
Works
Among his well-known writings are:
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Hashiya
A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal one or an interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the reader's language if that is different.
A collection of glosses is a ' ...
(marginal commentary) on the
Quranic commentary of
al-Baydawi
Qadi Baydawi (also known as Naṣir ad-Din al-Bayḍawi, also spelled Baidawi, Bayzawi and Beyzavi; d. June 1319, Tabriz) was a Persian jurist, theologian, and Quran commentator. He lived during the post- Seljuk and early Mongol era. Many commen ...
, titled: 'Inayat al-Qadi wa-Kifayat al-Radi.
* Commentary on
al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa
''Al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa'', ( ar, الشفا بتعريف حقوق المصطفى, ''The Remedy by the Recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One uhammad ﷺ'), of Qadi Ayyad (d. 544H / 1149CE) is perhaps the most frequently used a ...
of
al-Qadi 'Iyad, titled: Naseem al-Riyadh fi Sharh Shifa' al-Qadi 'Iyad.
See also
*
List of Hanafis
The following is the list of notable religious personalities who followed the Hanafi Islamic madhab followed by the section of Contemporary living Hanafi scholars, in chronological order:
*Abu Hanifa (d. 767)
*Ibn al-Mubarak (d. 797)
*Abu Yusuf (d ...
*
List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
The list of Ash'aris and Maturidis includes prominent adherents of the Ash'ari and Maturidi schools of thought. The Ash'aris are a doctrinal school of thought named after Imam Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, and the Maturidi school is named for Abu Mans ...
References
External links
The Biography of Shihab al-Din al-Khafaji
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1569 births
1659 deaths
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