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Al-Subki's journey to Damascus and the Pilgrimage, c. 710/1310

رحلة السبكي إلى دمشق وأداؤه الحج، نحو ٧١٠هـ

c. 1310 CE · c. 710 AH

Damascus → Mecca

After his studies in Cairo, al-Subki travelled to Damascus and performed the Pilgrimage, then returned to Egypt to teach at the Mansuriyya madrasa beside the mosque of Ibn Tulun 1; Ibn Kathir records that he journeyed to Syria, studied on his own, wrote and taught 2.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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130013101320 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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DamascusMecca

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After his studies in Cairo, al-Subki travelled to Damascus and performed the Pilgrimage, then returned to Egypt to teach at the Mansuriyya madrasa beside the mosque of Ibn Tulun 1; Ibn Kathir records that he journeyed to Syria, studied on his own, wrote and taught 2.

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Had participant
Taqi al-Din al-Subki
Occurred at
Damascus· Mecca

People and things also explored

Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740· Al-Subki summoned to Egypt, then restored at Damascus, 743/1342· Reconciliation between al-Subki and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, 16 Jumada II 750· Al-Subki leaves Damascus for Egypt in a litter, 26 Rabi' II 756· Al-Subki becomes chief qadi of Damascus, 739/1339· Al-Subki teaches at the Shamiyya al-Barraniyya, 21 Dhu al-Hijja 745· Al-Zamakhshari's second journey to Mecca via Damascus, 526/1132· Ibn Qayyim's pilgrimage with the Syrian caravan, 731/1331

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 9 pp. 744-745
  2. al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya — Ibn Kathir , s.a. 756 p. 264
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Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740

On Wednesday 17 Rabi' I 740 chief qadi Taqi al-Din al-Subki took up the shaykhhood of the Ashrafiyya hadith school in Damascus in succession to the hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi, and also assumed the Nuriyya hadith school in place of al-Mizzi's son.