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Al-Qushayri

986 - 1072

Al-Qushayri

'Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawazin Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī (Persian: عبدالکریم قُشَیری‎, Arabic: عبد الكريم بن هوازن بن عبد الملك بن طلحة أبو القاسم القشيري; 986 – 30 December 1072) was an Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, jurist, legal theoretician, commentator of the Qur’an, muhaddith, grammarian, spiritual master, orator, poet, and an eminent scholar who mastered a number of Islamic sciences. Al-Qushayri, combined the routine instruction of a Shafi'i law specialist and Hadith expert (muhaddith) with a solid slant to mysticism and ascetic lifestyle. He was born in Nishapur which is in Khorasan province in Iran. This region was widely known as a center of Islamic civilization up to the 13th Century CE. He was the grandfather of the hadith scholar Abd al-Ghafir al-Farsi, a student of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Al-Qushayri is the 1,345th most popular religious figure (down from 1,049th in 2024). (down from 787th in 2019)

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Among religious figures, Al-Qushayri ranks 1,345 out of 3,187. Before him are Nusaybah bint Ka'ab, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Blandina, Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba, and Camillo Ruini. After him are Anastasios of Albania, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Bartholomeus Anglicus, Matthew III Csák, Lorenzo Baldisseri, and Shirali Muslimov.

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