Al-Qushayri's manifesto defending al-Ash'ari, 436/1045

محضر القشيري في الذب عن الأشعري، ٤٣٦هـ

c. 1045 CE · 436 AH

Nishapur

After Nishapur passed under Seljuk rule in 429/1038 the struggle between the Hanafi and the Ash'ari-Shafi'i factions sharpened, and in 436/1045 al-Qushayri issued a manifesto declaring the orthodoxy of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, signed by the city's most renowned Shafi'i scholars; the document is preserved in Ibn Asakir's Tabyin kadhib al-muftari and cited by al-Subki 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Nishapur

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After Nishapur passed under Seljuk rule in 429/1038 the struggle between the Hanafi and the Ash'ari-Shafi'i factions sharpened, and in 436/1045 al-Qushayri issued a manifesto declaring the orthodoxy of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, signed by the city's most renowned Shafi'i scholars; the document is preserved in Ibn Asakir's Tabyin kadhib al-muftari and cited by al-Subki 1.

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Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri
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Al-Baghdadi teaches in seventeen fields at Nishapur as Khurasan's imams study under him, c. 425/1033· Al-Qushayri composes his great tafsir, Lata'if al-isharat, before 410/1019· The pulpit-cursing ordeal opens at Nishapur, 445/1053· 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

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  1. 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.