At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
LinguisticsDevelopment of law, theology and institutions
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
- JuristTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Nizar al-Hasan ibn Safi ibn Abd Allah al-Baghdadi, a grammarian, jurist and man of letters from Baghdad, titled "King of the Grammarians". He was born to a father who had been a client of a merchant. The encyclopaedia says he lived between 489 AH and 568 AH (1096–1173 CE). 1
People and things also explored
Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties· Covenant (ahd) and the duty to keep it; oath by the covenant of God· Term, deadline (ajal)· Hired worker (ajir)· Stranger, outsider (ajnabi)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.632-633
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Baghdadi Malik al-Nuhat al-Hasan ibn Safi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-baghdadi-malik-al-nuhat-al-hasan-ibn-safi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.