At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Poet · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-hanafi (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Majd al-Din al-Kinani, chief qadi of the Hanafis in Egypt; he excelled in fiqh, usul, fara'id, arithmetic and adab, and shared in hadith, grammar and the readings — with a one-volume diwan; al-Maqrizi said: I kept his company for years, took useful notes from him and was intimate with him — except that he was tried by the judgeship in his worldly life. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 24
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Majd al-Din al-Kinani, qadi of Egypt”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/majd-al-din-al-kinani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.