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al-Qadi al-Rashid ibn al-Zubayr

القاضي الرشيد بن الزبير

1168 CE · 563 AH

Al-Qadi al-Rashid Ibrahim b. al-Zubayr al-Ghassani (d. 563) — Aswan-born qadi, author of the Book of Gifts and a diwan, called by Ibn Khallikan unique in his age in geometry and belles-lettres; Shawar had him killed for inclining to Shirkuh 1.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
qadi · writer · Poet
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

Overview

Al-Qadi al-Rashid Abu Ishaq Ibrahim b. Ahmad b. al-Husayn Ibn al-Zubayr al-Ghassani al-Aswani; of the people of excellence, brilliance and leadership — he wrote the Kitab al-jinan naming a company of famous excellent men, and has the Kitab al-'aja'ib, al-turaf, al-hadaya and al-tuhaf, and a diwan. 1

Office and end

He held the inspectorate at Alexandria's frontier in the sultanic diwans — not by his choice — in 559, then was killed unjustly; Ibn Khallikan said: al-Rashid was unique in his era in geometry, mathematics, the religious sciences and poetic adab. 1

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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