Al-Qushayri composes his great tafsir, Lata'if al-isharat, before 410/1019

القشيري يصنّف «التفسير الكبير» قبل سنة ٤١٠هـ

c. 1019 CE · c. 410 AH

Nishapur

Before 410/1019 al-Qushayri composed his 'great tafsir' — the celebrated mystical commentary Lata'if al-isharat, which Ibn Khallikan counts among the finest Qur'an commentaries — and he held his ordered assemblies; among his other books are Nahj al-qulub, Ahkam al-sama', Adab al-sufiyya and Uyun al-ajwiba fi funun al-as'ila 1 2.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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101010201030 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Nishapur

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Before 410/1019 al-Qushayri composed his 'great tafsir' — the celebrated mystical commentary Lata'if al-isharat, which Ibn Khallikan counts among the finest Qur'an commentaries — and he held his ordered assemblies; among his other books are Nahj al-qulub, Ahkam al-sama', Adab al-sufiyya and Uyun al-ajwiba fi funun al-as'ila 1 2.

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Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri
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Nishapur

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Al-Baghdadi teaches in seventeen fields at Nishapur as Khurasan's imams study under him, c. 425/1033· The pulpit-cursing ordeal opens at Nishapur, 445/1053· Al-Qushayri's manifesto defending al-Ash'ari, 436/1045· Al-Qushayri joins Abu Ali al-Daqqaq's circle at Nishapur, c. 400/1009· Al-Qushayri's first hadith dictation sessions, 437/1046· Al-Qushayri imprisoned in the fitna of 446/1054 — he writes the 'Complaint of the people of the Sunna'· Al-Qushayri's return to Nishapur as Nizam al-Mulk's era dawns, 455/1063· Al-Qushayri succeeds al-Daqqaq at the madrasa's remembrance sessions, 405/1015

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , pp. 172-174
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 5 p. 564
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Al-Baghdadi teaches in seventeen fields at Nishapur as Khurasan's imams study under him, c. 425/1033

Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi taught in seventeen fields, a man of dignity and means; Abu Uthman al-Sabuni said of him: he was among the imams of the principles and the leading men of Islam by the consensus of the people of merit; Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi, Abd al-Ghaffar ibn Shiruya and Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri transmitted from him, al-Bayhaqi read jurisprudence under him and Nasir al-Marwazi read to him; the date is approximate within his mastership after 418 and before his departure in 429.