At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Development of law, theology and institutions
Summary
Mahmud ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Umar ibn Maza al-Marghinani al-Bukhari, Burhan al-Din — a Hanafi jurist among the chief imams of the madhhab, counted by Ibn Kamal Pasha among the mujtahids in the questions, from a great house of learning in his country. 1 He was born in Marghinan and died in Bukhara (the scan reads 'bi-Bukhari'), studied under his father al-Sadr al-Sa'id and his uncle al-Sadr al-Shahid Umar, and was the father of Sadr al-Islam Tahir ibn Mahmud. 1 His works include al-Muhit al-Burhani fi al-Fiqh al-Nu'mani, al-Dhakhira, al-Tajrid, Tatimmat al-Fatawa, a commentary on al-Khassaf's Adab al-Qada, a commentary on al-Jami' al-Saghir, and al-Tariqa al-Burhaniyya. 1 The encyclopedia dates him 551–616 AH. 1
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Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.16250
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islam.museum contributors. “Mahmud al-Marghinani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mahmud-al-marghinani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-24.