At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar · teacher
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- 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-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Taj al-Din al-Firkah, jurist of Syria and shaykh al-Islam; he read fiqh under Ibn al-Salah and Ibn 'Abd al-Salam, sat to teach at twenty-odd and was writing on fatwas at thirty — fatwas reached him from every quarter, and most of the qadis of Syria and its environs were his pupils. 1
His rank
Al-Dhahabi said: "the headship of the madhhab in the world ended with him, and he was of those who reached the rank of ijtihad"; Ibn Qadi Shuhba said he was "more juristically profound and of purer talent than al-Nawawi, with more memorised than he" — and between him and al-Nawawi there was estrangement. He taught at the Badara'iyya and was buried in the Bab al-Saghir cemetery. 1
Connections
- Studied under
- Ibn al-Salah· الشيخ عز الدين بن عبد السلام
- Died in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
al-Kamal Salar al-Irbili· Shams al-Din Ibn Nuh· Sharaf al-Din ibn Ni'ma, khatib of khatibs· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 722-724
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Taj al-Din al-Firkah, jurist of Syria”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/taj-al-din-al-firkah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.