At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar · teacher
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
The scholar Majd al-Din As'ad b. Abi'l-Nasr al-Mayhani — of Mihna, a village near Tus between Sarakhs and Abiward — author of the Ta'liqa; he read fiqh at Marw, his excellence spread and his fame travelled, he twice headed Baghdad's Nizamiyya and formed many students; a fiery intelligence trained under Abu'l-Muzaffar al-Sam'ani and al-Muwaffaq al-Harawi, and a man of religion and scrupulosity. 1
His last journey
Born at Mihna in 461, he travelled to Ghazna and grew famous in those parts, then came to Baghdad where people profited from him and his khilaf method; sent from Baghdad as an envoy to Hamadan, he died there in 527. 1
Connections
- Studied under
- Abu al-Muzaffar al-Sam'ani Mansur ibn Muhammad al-Tamimi
- Died in
- Hamadan
- Taught
- أبو منصور بن الرزاز
People and things also explored
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 560
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “مجد الدين أسعد الميهني”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/asad-al-mayhani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.