At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Summary
Sultan Tughril Beg ordered the seizure and exile of Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri, Imam al-Haramayn and Abu Sahl ibn al-Muwaqqiq; al-Juwayni hid and left by the Kirman road for the Hijaz, where he settled by the sanctuaries and received the title 'Imam of the two sanctuaries', while the memorist Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi and al-Qushayri and a host of others made the Pilgrimage — it is said that year brought together some four hundred qadis of the Shafi'is and Hanafis driven from their homelands by the affair 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Bayhaqi· Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri· Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni· طغرل بك
- Occurred at
- Nishapur· Mecca
People and things also explored
The pulpit-cursing ordeal opens at Nishapur, 445/1053· Nishapur· Al-Baghdadi teaches in seventeen fields at Nishapur as Khurasan's imams study under him, c. 425/1033· Final settlement at Nishapur and the thousand fascicules, c. 457/1065· Al-Qushayri's first hadith dictation sessions, 437/1046· Enforced cursing of the Rafida and the Ash'aris from the pulpits of Khurasan· Hearing hadith from al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, before 405/1014· Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni is born at Bushtanikan, Muharram 419/1028
Sources
- Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , pp. 271-272
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The scholars' exodus from Nishapur toward the Hijaz, c. 450/1058”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/ulama-hijra-nishapur-450/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.