Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist
- Counted among
- Sunni (Shafi'i)
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Summary
Abd al-Ghaffar ibn Abd al-Karim ibn Abd al-Ghaffar, Najm al-Din al-Qazwini, a Shafi'i jurist who also knew arithmetic. His works include al-Hawi al-saghir and al-Aja'ib fi sharh al-lubab, both on Shafi'i law, and a book on arithmetic. The book gives 665 AH as his death year. 1
Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.8202
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islam.museum contributors. “Abd al-Ghaffar al-Qazwini (Najm al-Din)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-ghaffar-al-qazwini/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.