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Husam al-Din al-Abiwardi

حسام الدين الأبيوردي

c. 1412 CE · 815 AH

Husam al-Din al-Abiwardi of Abiward in Khurasan, later of Mecca — pupil of Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani, brilliant in the rational sciences; al-Nasir of Yemen charged him with teaching at Ta'izz's madrasas, where death overtook him in 815; author of Rabi' al-Jinan on semantics and rhetoric 1.

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Roles
Scholar · theologian
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia · Arabia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Abd al-Karim al-Jili · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Abd Allah ibn Miqdad al-Aqfahsi

Husam al-Din al-Abiwardi

Husam al-Din Hasan ibn ʿAli al-Abiwardi, a Shafiʿi resident of Mecca. The nisba refers to Abiward, a town in Khurasan. He studied with al-Saʿd al-Taftazani and others, excelled in the rational sciences, and went to Yemen, where he met al-Nasir and was given charge of teaching in some colleges in Taʿizz, but death overtook him there. He wrote "Rabiʿ al-Janan" on rhetoric and eloquence 1.

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 129
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