al-Ardabili, Jamal al-Din · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: Jurist
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Karim al-Jili · Abd Allah ibn Miqdad al-Aqfahsi · Abu al-Khayr al-'Ala'i al-Muqaddisi · Abu Tahir al-Khujandi of Medina · Ahmadi Taj al-Din Ibrahim ibn Khidr

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

JuristTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn Ibrahim al-Ardabili al-Shafi'i, a Shafi'i jurist from Ardabil in Azerbaijan, who died in 779 AH (1377 CE). The date rests on one source and needs an additional source. ¹

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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islam.museum contributors. “al-Ardabili, Jamal al-Din”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-ardabili-yusuf-ibn-ibrahim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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People

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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.