Abu Muhammad al-Khwarazmi al-Bafi

أبو محمد الخوارزمي البافي

c. 1007 CE · 398 AH

Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Khwarazmi al-Bafi, a companion of al-Daraki, was a jurist, man of letters, poet, a skilled correspondent and generous; he taught in Baghdad after al-Daraki 1. He is not Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Abbas al-Khwarazmi (person/al-khwarazmi-abu-bakr-muhammad-ibn-al-abbas).

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Roles
Jurist · Poet
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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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 · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun

Overview

Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Khwarazmi al-Bafi, a jurist, man of letters, poet, graceful writer and generous man. He was the companion of al-Daraki. He taught in Baghdad after al-Daraki. 1

Death

Al-Shirazi says he died in 398 AH. The Gregorian date is derived. The date needs a second source. 1

Note

He is not Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Abbas al-Khwarazmi; the museum's records treat these as two different people.

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Studied under
Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah al-Daraki

People and things also explored

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Marwazi· Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah al-Daraki

Sources

  1. Tabaqat al-fuqaha' — Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (ed. Ihsan Abbas, Dar al-Ra'id al-Arabi) , p. 64
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islam.museum contributors. “Abu Muhammad al-Khwarazmi al-Bafi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-muhammad-abd-allah-ibn-muhammad-al-khwarazmi-al-bafi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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