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جمال الإسلام السلمي

جمال الإسلام السلمي

c. 1138 CE · 533 AH

Jamal al-Islam Ali ibn Muslim al-Sulami, mufti of Syria; pupil and standard-bearer of the shaykh Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Summayt, and first lecturer of the Aminiyya — when its teaching waned, al-Ghazali himself installed him as Qur'an-reader at Damascus's mosque, praising him and urging folk to keep his learning; he held sway over the Bab Manzur quarter of Janin near Nablus, a village called Busraja, where he dwelt; Ibn al-Jawzi gives his death as 533 1.

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Roles
Jurist · Scholar · teacher
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

Summary

Jamal al-Islam 'Ali b. Muslim al-Sulami, mufti of Syria; companion of the singular imam Shaykh Abu'l-Qasim Ibn al-Summayt. When his teaching at the Aminiyya — its first teacher — faltered, Shaykh Abu Hamid al-Ghazali took him up and brought him into the Umayyad Mosque as muqri' of the Qur'an; al-Ghazali praised him, recommended him and urged people to preserve his learning. Bab Manzur was conferred on him toward the town of Jenin near Nablus, a village called Basraja, where he settled; Ibn al-Jawzi says he died in 533. 1

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Studied under
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

People and things also explored

al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· Death of al-Ghazali at Tus· al-Ghazali leaves Baghdad· al-Ghazali becomes chief professor at the Nizamiyya in Baghdad· Muhyi al-Din Abu Sa'd al-Nisaburi· Abu al-Hasan al-Balansi· أبو منصور بن الرزاز· ابن رشد الحفيد

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 584
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islam.museum contributors. “جمال الإسلام السلمي”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ali-ibn-muslim-al-sulami/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488

In 488 Imam al-Ghazali came to Damascus in zuhd, composed the Ihya' and had it read back to him there, stayed two years, then made hajj and returned home.