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Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri

أبو القاسم القشيري

c. February 1073 CE · Rajab 465 AH

The Qushayri of the Risala — among the imams al-Kunduri drove from Khurasan by lumping the Ash'aris with the Rafida on the minbars, and whom Nizam al-Mulk's reign restored 1.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Scholar · theologian
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers
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Life in time

97510001025105010751100112511501175 c. c. c. c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abu al-Fath Abd al-Baqi al-Haddad al-Hanbali al-Faradi · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni · Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani

Overview

Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Karim ibn Hawazin al-Qushayri, author of "al-Risala al-Qushayriyya". A scholar and theologian from Khurasan. 1

Leaving Khurasan

Ibn al-Imad relates that Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri added al-Qushayri and men like him to the Rafidis in the curse from the pulpits of Khurasan, so he left Khurasan with its imams. Then Nizam al-Mulk honoured him when his state came. 1

His birth, death and other works need an additional source.

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Parent of
Abu Nasr ibn al-Qushayri
Participated in
Enforced cursing of the Rafida and the Ash'aris from the pulpits of Khurasan

People and things also explored

The Strife over Declaring the Hanbalis Unbelievers and the Looting of the Nizamiyya Market· The al-Qushayri fitna between the Hanbalis and the Ash'aris in Baghdad· Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri· إمام الحرمين الجويني· Enforced cursing of the Rafida and the Ash'aris from the pulpits of Khurasan· Abu Nasr ibn al-Qushayri

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 310
  • al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi
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The Strife over Declaring the Hanbalis Unbelievers and the Looting of the Nizamiyya Market

In 470 Nizam al-Mulk's letter reached Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi rebuking the anti-Hanbali agitation in his own Nizamiyya: 'Sultan's policy and the rule of justice oblige us to lean to no madhhab over another; we did not build this school but to shelter the people of learning — not to split the community — and the madhhab that dominates Baghdad and its quarters is that of the imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.' The Hanbalis circulated it and were strengthened. Then on Tuesday 2 Shawwal a madrasa student called al-Iskandarani went to Suq al-Thulatha pronouncing the Hanbalis unbelievers; pelted with a brick he fled back to the madrasa market, whose men sallied out and looted the other market — until the mob reversed it, burst into the madrasa market, plundered their quarter and killed a sick man in his room. The Daylamite guards shot dead some fifteen, and the bodies were carried to the diwan for the qadis and witnesses to attest.