Radi al-Din al-Jili · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: faqih · mufti
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Life in time

The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abdallah al-Irmawi · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi

Summary

Radi al-Din Abu Dawud Sulayman ibn al-Muzaffar ibn Ghanim ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Jili, Shafi'i mufti at the Nizamiyya madrasa of Baghdad, was among the greatest learned men of his age. He composed a fiqh work filling fifteen volumes; offices were offered to him and he declined them, being devout. ¹

Career

These posts have no recorded dates, so they are listed here in words.

Jurist (faqih) · Also held · Undated

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “Radi al-Din al-Jili”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/radi-al-din-abu-dawud-al-jili/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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