al-Irbili, Abu al-Ma'ali

الإربلي أبو المعالي

1287 CE · 686 AH – 1354 CE · 755 AH

Scholar of Mosul in the eighth century AH, active in religious learning and letters.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: al-Abili, Abu Abd Allah · Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Ansari al-Mursi · Al-Adfawi, Ja'far ibn Tha'laba · Ibn Jabir al-Andalusi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Ibn Ruzgan, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abu al-Ma'ali Badr Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ahmad al-Irbili al-Mawsili, a scholar from Mosul in the eighth century AH, among the people of religious learning and letters. 1

Dates of life

The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 686 AH (1287 CE) and his death as 755 AH (1354 CE). The two dates come from one source, so they need a second source. 1

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Irbili, Abu al-Ma'ali”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/irbili-muhammad-ibn-ali/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.
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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.