At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Modern Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Yusuf ibn Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad al-Husayni al-Asir (1817–1889 CE), of a Sidonian family known by the epithet "al-Asir". He grew up in Sidon and memorised the Qur'an, then went to Damascus in the year 1832 CE to seek knowledge 1.
The museum classes him as a scholar and writer of the Sunni school. No other details are given in the data, and this needs an additional source.
People and things also explored
The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Yusuf al-Asir”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yusuf-al-asir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.