At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
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Overview
In 649/1251, past the age of nineteen, al-Nawawi's father brought him to Damascus, where he lodged at the al-Rawahiyya madrasa. He began with medicine but soon turned to the religious sciences, reading twelve lessons a day with the shaykhs; in his own words he spent about two years without laying his side on the ground, living on the madrasa's allowance 1 2 3." ur: "649ھ/1251ء میں، انیس سال کی عمر سے بگڑھ کر، نووی کے والد انہیں دمشق لے آئے جہاں وہ مدرسہ رواحیہ میں رہے۔ انہوں نے پہلے طب شروع کیا مگر جلد دینی علوم کی طرف متوجہ ہوئے اور روزانہ بارہ اسباق مشائخ سے پڑھتے؛ ان کا اپنا بیان ہے کہ تقریباً دو سال انہوں نے پہلو زمین پر نہیں رکھا اور ان کا خرچ مدرسے کی جرائیہ تھا 1 2 3۔
Connections
- Had participant
- Imam al-Nawawi
- Occurred at
- Damascus
- During the reign of
- al-Musta'sim bi'llah Abdullah ibn al-Mustansir, last caliph of Baghdad
People and things also explored
Al-Nawawi begins writing, c. 655/1257· Al-Nawawi takes over the al-Ashrafiyya dar al-hadith in Damascus, 665/1267· Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277· Al-Nawawi finishes the Minhaj and the Rawda, 669/1270-71· Al-Nawawi completes al-Tahrir fi alfaz al-Tanbih, 671/1272-73· Death of Ibn al-Salah at Damascus and burial in the Sufi cemetery, 25 Rabi' II 643/Sept. 1245· Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 1096
- al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya — Ibn Kathir , p. 293-294
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 354-355
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Nawawi arrives in Damascus and lodges at the Rawahiyya madrasa, 649/1251”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/al-nawawi-damascus-649/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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