al-Bazmawi Shams al-Din Muhammad

البزماوي شمس الدين محمد

Scholar of law, Arabic grammar and inheritance who was shaykh of the Fakhriyya school in Cairo, taught at the Salahiyya in Jerusalem, and composed verse works on legal theory, inheritance and prosody; he made the Hajj in 828 AH (1424 CE).

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Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
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Scripture and its sciencesDevelopment of law, theology and institutions

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Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abd al-Da'im al-Bazmawi, a scholar of jurisprudence, Arabic and inheritance. He settled as shaykh of the Fakhriyya madrasa in Cairo, and taught at the Salahiyya madrasa in Jerusalem. He wrote verse works and summaries on the principles of jurisprudence, inheritance and metre, and performed the pilgrimage in 828 AH. 1

His dates of birth and death are not recorded in the museum's data and need an additional source.

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Sources

  1. 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-Bazmawi Shams al-Din Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-bazmawi-shams-al-din-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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