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Birth of Taj al-Din al-Subki in Cairo, c. 727/1327

مولد تاج الدين السبكي بالقاهرة، نحو ٧٢٧هـ/١٣٢٧م

c. 1327 CE · 727 AH

Cairo

Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi ibn Ali ibn Tamam — Taj al-Din Abu al-Nasr al-Subki al-Ansari al-Khazraji al-Shafi'i — was born in Cairo in 727, 728 or 729 AH (c. 1327–1329 CE); al-Dhahabi's Mu'jam al-Saghir gives 728 1 2.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Egypt & Nile

In time

1310132013301340 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Cairo

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Overview

Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi ibn Ali ibn Tamam — Taj al-Din Abu al-Nasr al-Subki al-Ansari al-Khazraji al-Shafi'i — was born in Cairo in 727, 728 or 729 AH (c. 1327–1329 CE); al-Dhahabi's Mu'jam al-Saghir gives 728 1 2.

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Taj al-Din al-Subki
Occurred at
Cairo
During the reign of
al-Mustakfi I

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Al-Subki teaches at the Mansuriyya, Cairo, 723/1323· Shaykh of Dar al-Hadith al-Zahiriyya, Cairo, Shawwal 723· Ibn al-Mulaqqin is born at Cairo, Rabi' I 723/March 1323· Orphaned, the boy is raised in al-Mulaqqin's house, about 724/1324· Qur'an, the 'Umda and first hearings at Cairo, about 733/1333· Ibn Taymiyya's exile in a tower at Alexandria, 709/1309· The Wasitiyya councils and the Cairo citadel imprisonment, 705-707/1306-1307· Death of Muhyi al-Din Yahya ibn Fadl Allah, 738/1338

Sources

  1. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 2/425
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 9 p. 745
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Al-Subki teaches at the Mansuriyya, Cairo, 723/1323

In the spring of 723 AH the Shafi'i scholar Taqi al-Din al-Subki took over the teaching post at the Mansuriyya madrasa in Cairo from the qadi Jamal al-Din al-Zar'i, who had moved to Damascus.