Al-Nawawi finishes the Minhaj and the Rawda, 669/1270-71

النووي يفرغ من «المنهاج» و«الروضة»، ٦٦٩هـ/١٢٧٠-١٢٧١م

c. 1271 CE · 669 AH

Damascus

In 669/1270-71 al-Nawawi completed two works: the Minhaj al-Talibin, an abridgement of al-Rafiʿi's Muharrar, and the Rawda, an abridged commentary on al-Ghazali's Wajiz. With its two great commentaries, Ibn Hajar's Tuhfa and al-Ramli's Nihaya, the Minhaj came to be regarded from the tenth Islamic century as the supreme authority of the Shafiʿi school 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

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1260127012801290 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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In 669/1270-71 al-Nawawi completed two works: the Minhaj al-Talibin, an abridgement of al-Rafiʿi's Muharrar, and the Rawda, an abridged commentary on al-Ghazali's Wajiz. With its two great commentaries, Ibn Hajar's Tuhfa and al-Ramli's Nihaya, the Minhaj came to be regarded from the tenth Islamic century as the supreme authority of the Shafiʿi school 1." ur: "669ھ/1270-71ء میں نووی نے دو کتابیں مکمل کیں: منہاج الطالبین، جو رافعی کی محرر کا انتخاب ہے، اور روضہ، جو غزالی کی وجیز کا مختصر شرح ہے۔ منہاج اپنے دو عظیم شروح ابن حجر کی تحفہ اور رملی کی نہایہ کے ساتھ دسویں صدی ہجری سے شافعی مذہب کی اعلیٰ مرجع شمار ہوئی 1۔

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Had participant
Imam al-Nawawi
Occurred at
Damascus
During the reign of
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi

People and things also explored

Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277· Al-Nawawi completes al-Tahrir fi alfaz al-Tanbih, 671/1272-73· Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300· Al-Nawawi takes over the al-Ashrafiyya dar al-hadith in Damascus, 665/1267· Al-Nawawi begins writing, c. 655/1257· Al-Nawawi arrives in Damascus and lodges at the Rawahiyya madrasa, 649/1251· Death of al-Zahir Baybars, 676

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 1096
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Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277

Al-Nawawi's standing with the people emboldened him to petition the Mamluk sultan Baybars to lift the war taxes imposed on the people of Syria and to protect the madrasa teachers from a cut in their stipends. When the petition failed and a fatwa approving the exactions was put before the jurists, al-Nawawi alone refused to sign, and Baybars expelled him from Damascus to Nawa.