Al-Bajuri, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad

البيجوري إبراهيم بن محمد

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A Shafi'i theologian and jurist, born in al-Bajur in the Minufiya province of Egypt. He memorized the Qur'an there and then moved to al-Azhar.

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Roles
Jurist · theologian
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Egypt & Nile
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17251750177518001825185018751900 c. c. c.
The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Bahadur Shah Zafar · Muhammad ibn Ahmad Aknasus · Omar ibn Said · Sidi ibn al-Mukhtar al-Abyiri · Bilali Muhammad

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Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Bajuri, a theologian and Shafi'i jurist. He was born in the town of al-Bajur in the al-Minufiyya district of Egypt, memorised the Qur'an there, and then moved to al-Azhar. The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 1198 AH (1784 CE) and his death as 1277 AH (1860 CE). 1

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Salim al-Bishri

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Abu Shu'ayb al-Doukkali· Cairo· Obedience to those in authority and not rebelling (in the Tahawi creed)· Salim al-Bishri· Biting and the liability for injury it causes (add)· Justice and uprightness (adl)· Contagion (adwa)· Pardon (afw) in purity, worship, contracts and penalties

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.29
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Abu Shu'ayb al-Doukkali

Moroccan scholar (1878–1937) from Doukkala, a jurist and hadith master titled Shaykh al-Islam. He studied at al-Azhar under Salim al-Bishri and Muhammad Bakhit al-Muti'i and taught there and at al-Zaytuna, served as Morocco's minister of justice and of education, and presided over the royal scholarly lessons under three sultans; he is counted a pioneer of Salafi reform in Morocco.