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Nawa

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Nawa: a village of the Hawran south of Damascus in the Jawlan 1 2, known in the seventh Islamic century as the birthplace of Imam Muhyi al-Din al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277), who was born there in 631/1233 and died in his father's house; his tomb is still honoured there 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

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Nawa: a village of the Hawran south of Damascus in the Jawlan 1 2, known in the seventh Islamic century as the birthplace of Imam Muhyi al-Din al-Nawawi (d. 676/1277), who was born there in 631/1233 and died in his father's house; his tomb is still honoured there 2." ur: "نوى: دمشق کے جنوب میں حوران کے گاؤں میں سے ایک، جوڑان (جولان) کی سرزمین پر 1 2۔ ساتویں صدی ہجری میں یہ امام محی الدین نووی (وفات 676ھ/1277ء) کی جائے پیدائش کے طور پر معروف ہوئی، جو یہیں 631ھ/1233ء میں پیدا ہوئے اور اپنے والد کے گھر میں فوت ہوئے؛ ان کا مزار آج بھی یہاں معزز ہے 2۔

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Birthplace of
Imam al-Nawawi· Nur Muhammad Taraki
Place of death of
Imam al-Nawawi
Home of
Muhammad Nawawi al-Bantani
Site of
Birth of Imam al-Nawawi at Nawa, 631/1233· Death of Imam al-Nawawi at Nawa, 676/1277
Related to
al-Jabiya

People and things also explored

Imam al-Nawawi· Birth of Imam al-Nawawi at Nawa, 631/1233· Death of Imam al-Nawawi at Nawa, 676/1277· Al-Nawawi takes over the al-Ashrafiyya dar al-hadith in Damascus, 665/1267· Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277· Al-Nawawi begins writing, c. 655/1257· Al-Nawawi arrives in Damascus and lodges at the Rawahiyya madrasa, 649/1251· Al-Nawawi makes the pilgrimage with his father, 651/1253

Sources

  1. al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya — Ibn Kathir , p. 293-294
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 1096
  • GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Nawa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/nawa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Imam al-Nawawi

Abu Zakariyya Yahya al-Nawawi was a Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar, born in Muharram 631 AH at Nawa south of Damascus and brought by his father to the Rawahiyya madrasa in Damascus in 649. He headed the Ashrafiyya dar al-hadith from 665, lived frugally and declined a salary, was alone in refusing to sign a fatwa approving Sultan Baybars's levies and was expelled from Damascus, and died at Nawa in Rajab 676. His best known works are the commentary on Sahih Muslim, Minhaj al-Talibin, the Rawda, al-Adhkar, Riyad al-Salihin and the Forty Hadiths, and the Encyclopaedia of Islam ranks him among the highest authorities of the Shafi'i school.