Kamal al-Din ibn al-Humam كمال الدين بن الهمام | |
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| Title | Kamal al-Din[1][2] — Shaykh al-Islam[3] |
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| Born | 790 A.H. = 1388 A.D. |
| Died | 861 A.H. = 1457 A.D. |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni Sufi |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Maturidi[4] |
| Main interest(s) | Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Tawhid, Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Usul al-Fiqh, Usul al-Din, Hadith studies, Tafsir, Logic, Arabic grammar, Arabic literature, Rhetoric, Islamic inheritance jurisprudence, Sufism, Mathematics, Music |
| Notable work(s) | Al-Musayarah, Fath al-Qadeer |
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Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam (Arabic: الكمال بن الهمام) was a prominent Egyptian[5] Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist. He was a mujtahid and highly regarded in many sciences of knowledge and was also a Sufi.[6] Highly regarded in all fields of knowledge, including fiqh, usul al-fiqh, kalam (Islamic theology), logic, Sufism, Arabic language and literature, tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), Hadith, Islamic law of inheritance (in Arabic, known as 'ilm al-fara'id, or 'the science of [ancestral] shares'), mathematics, and music.[7][8][9]
He is famous for his commentary known as Fath al-Qadeer on the famous Hanafi book al-Hidayah.[10]
- ^ David Dean Commins (1990). Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria. Oxford University Press. p. 74. ISBN 9780195362947.
- ^ Sherman A. Jackson (2009). Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering. Oxford University Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780195382068.
- ^ "The Biography of Imam al-Kamal ibn al-Humam". Dar al-Ifta' al-Misriyya.
- ^ Cenap Çakmak (2017). Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia [4 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 1015. ISBN 9781610692175.
- ^ Baber Johansen (1999). Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh. Brill Publishers. p. 148. ISBN 9789004106031.
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- ^ "Al-'Alam by al-Zirikli". shamela.ws.
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OxfordDictionarywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Abdul Azim Islahi (2014). History of Islamic Economic Thought: Contributions of Muslim Scholars to Economic Thought and Analysis. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 9781784711382.