At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Contemporary Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
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Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesDevelopment of law, theology and institutions
Place in the story
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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Muhammad Sa'id ibn Ramadan al-Buti. "Mawsu'at a'lam al-ulama wa al-udaba" describes him as a figure of Islam: a scholar of the foundations of jurisprudence, a jurist, a reformer, and a careful linguist, born in Damascus into an old family. 1
The encyclopedia gives his birth as 1894 CE (1311 AH) and his death as 1976 CE (1396 AH). 1 These dates need an additional source, since this source alone is not enough to fix them.
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Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.305
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ramadan-al-buti-muhammad-said/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.