Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Mas'ud al-Ansari al-Burshani, a jurist, philologist, and expert in inheritance and arithmetic, from Wadi Ash in al-Andalus. He took knowledge from the leading scholars of his age. 1
The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 806 AH (1403 CE) and his death as 888 AH (1483 CE). 1
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Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Burshani Ibrahim ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-burshani-ibrahim-ibn-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.