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Al-Ghazali was born in c. 1058 in Tus, then part of the Seljuk Empire. [ 48] He was a Muslim scholar, law specialist, rationalist, and spiritualist of Persian descent. [ 49][ 50] He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (now part of Iran ), [ 48] not long after Seljuks entered Baghdad and ended Shia Buyid Amir al-umaras.
Tomb of Imam al-Maturidi, Samarkand. Abu Mansur al-Maturidi ( Arabic: أبو منصور الماتريدي, romanized : ʾAbū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī; 853–944) was an Islamic scholar and theologian who is the eponym of the Maturidi school of theology in Sunni Islam. A follower of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence, al-Maturidi was a leading ...
Muhammad Nasir al-Din (1914 – 2 October 1999) known by his nisba al-Albani (the Albanian), was an Albanian Islamic scholar known for being a famous muhaddith. A major figure of the Salafi methodology of Islam , he established his reputation in Syria , where his family had moved and where he was educated as a child.
Grigore Vieru ( Romanian pronunciation: [ɡriˈɡore viˈeru]; 14 February 1935 – 18 January 2009) was a Moldovan poet, writer and unionist advocate, [ 1] known for his poems and books for children. His poetry is characterized by vivid natural scenery, patriotism, as well as a venerated image of the sacred mother. Vieru wrote in the Romanian ...
According to al-Subki, al-Mas'udi was a student of Ibn Surayj, the leading scholar of the Shafi'ite school. Al-Subki claimed he found al-Mas'udi's notes of Ibn Surayj's lectures. Al-Mas'udi also met Shafi'ites during his stay in Egypt. He met Zahirites in Baghdad and Aleppo such as Ibn Jabir and Niftawayh; modern scholarship leans toward the ...
Influenced by. Al-Shafi‘i, Ibn al-Hajib, Al-Ghazali, Asad Mayhani [2] Sayf al-Din al-Amidi or Muhammad al-Amidi [3] (b. 1156; Diyarbakır - d. 1233 in Damascus [3]) was a Kurdish influential jurist. Initially a Hanbalite, Al-Amidi belonged to the Shafi`i school and worked to combine kalam (theology) with existing methods of jurisprudence.
The domed Mausoleum of as-Salih Najm ad-Din Ayyub, overlooking al-Muizz street today. The Salihiyya Madrasa (or Madrasa as-Salihiyya), also called the Madrasa and Mausoleum of as-Salih Najm ad-Din Ayyub (Arabic: مدرسة وقبة الصالح نجم الدين أيوب, romanized: Madrasa wa Qubbat as-Salih Nagm ad-Din Ayyub) is a historic madrasa and mausoleum complex in Cairo, Egypt.
Al-Urdi is a member of the group of Islamic astronomers of the 13th and 14th centuries who were active in the criticism of the astronomical model presented in Ptolemy 's Almagest. Saliba (1979) identified Bodleian ms. Marsh 621 as a copy of Al-Urdi's Kitāb al-Hayʾa, based on which he argued that Al-Urdi's contributions predated Al-Tusi.