Zayn al-Dīn al-Juba'ī al-Ṭalluṣī al'Amilī (; 1506-1559), also known as ash-Shahīd ath-Thanī (, ', ) was a Twelver
Shia Muslim
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scholar.
Early life
He was born ''Zayn al-Dīn bin Nur al-Dīn 'Alī bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin 'Alī bin Jamal al-Dīn bin Taqī bin Sāliḥ bin Mushrif al-'Amilī al-Shamī al-Ṭalluṣī al-Juba'ī'', in the village of
Jbaa, on the 13th of Shawwal, 911 AH (1506 CE). His father, Sheikh Nur al-Din 'Ali was also a scholar.
His ancestor, Sāliḥ, was a student of
Allamah al-Hilli
Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Ḥasan bin Yūsuf bin ʿAli ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī (; December 1250 – December 1325), known by the honorific title al-Allāmah al-Ḥillī (, ''"The Sage of Hillah"'') was an Iraqi Arab scholar and one of the most inf ...
.
Career and travels
Thani studied under both
Sunni
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and
Shi'a
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scholars in
Jabal 'Amel,
Damascus
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,
Cairo
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,
Jerusalem
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.
In 1536, he moved to
Egypt
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, where he learned ''Usul al-Fiqh'',
geometry
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,
prosody,
medicine
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and
logic
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.
In 1543, he traveled to
Constantinople
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and met with Muhammad bin Muhammad bin
Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī
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History
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, with whom he shared multiple treatises relating to several subjects, including
mathematics
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, astronomy and religion. The latter offered him the highest teaching position in a school of his choice, which was eventually the Nuriyya School of
Baalbek
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.
Legacy
His
Magnum opus
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Historically, ...
is the first commentary of ''The Damascene Glitter'' by
Shahid Awwal called ''The Beautiful Garden in Interpreting the Damscene Glitter'' (Arabic: ''ar-Rawda-l-Bahiyah fi Sharh allam'a-d-Dimashqiya'' الروضة البهيّة في شرح اللمعة الدمشقيّة ).
See also
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The Five Martyrs
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Shahid Awwal
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Shahid Thani
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Shahid Salis
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Shahid Rabay
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Shahid Khamis
References
External links
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Lebanese Shia clerics
1506 births
1558 deaths