At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · muqri · grammarian
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Al-Mursi al-Lawraqi, shaykh of the readers in Syria; he read the readings on three of Ibn Hudhayl's companions, then on Abu'l-Jud, then on al-Kindi, and heard at Baghdad from Ibn al-Akhdar; versed in kalam, the principles and Arabic — he taught iqra', worked, wrote books, taught by deputyship at the 'Aziziyya and held the mashyakha of iqra' and grammar at the 'Adiliyya; he died on 7 Rajab having commented the Shatibiyya. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 532
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Mursi al-Lawraqi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-mursi-lawraqi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.