At a glance
- Roles
- mufassir · muqri · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
sunni-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Al-Kawashi, mufassir, scholar, muqri', ascetic, resident of Kawasha citadel of Mosul; he excelled in the readings, tafsir and Arabic, and wrote the Great and Small tafsirs. 1
His zuhd
Al-Dhahabi said: unrivalled in his time, peerless in zuhd, righteousness, abstinence, truthfulness and striving — the sultan and those below him visited him and he cared nothing for them, did not rise for them, grew vexed by them and accepted nothing from them; he had unveiling and karamat. Ibn Khruf al-Mawsili and others took the readings from him. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 642-643
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Muwaffaq al-Din al-Kawashi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-kawashi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.