Abu Ali ibn Hamkan al-Hamadhani · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: Jurist · teacher
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region: Persia & Central Asia · Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli

Overview

Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn ibn Hamkan al-Hamadhani, one of the companions of Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi. He settled in Baghdad and taught there. ¹

The editor's note gives his death as 405 AH; the date needs a second source.

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Studied under: Qadi Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi, Ahmad ibn Amir ibn Bishr

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Abu al-Fayyad ibn al-Muntasir· Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Marwazi· al-Qadi Abu Muhammad al-Istakhri· Qadi Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi, Ahmad ibn Amir ibn Bishr

Sources

Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi) , p. 62

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islam.museum contributors. “Abu Ali ibn Hamkan al-Hamadhani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-ali-al-hasan-ibn-hamkan-al-hamadhani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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