At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
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Summary
Overcome by fever he was carried to Bushtanqan for its mild air and grew weaker; he died on the night of Wednesday 25 Rabi' II 478 — 20 August 1085 — aged fifty-nine. Carried that same night to the town, he was buried in his house, then transferred years later to the Husayn cemetery beside his father; his minbar was broken and the markets closed, and his nearly four hundred pupils broke their inkwells and pens and kept the mourning for a year 1 2 3.
Connections
- Had participant
- Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni
- Occurred at
- Nishapur
People and things also explored
Final settlement at Nishapur and the thousand fascicules, c. 457/1065· Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni is born at Bushtanikan, Muharram 419/1028· Al-Juwayni takes his father's teaching chair before twenty, 438/1047· The pulpit-cursing ordeal opens at Nishapur, 445/1053· The Nizamiyya of Nishapur· Al-Shirazi's journey to Khurasan and his disputations with al-Juwayni, c. 475/1082· The scholars' exodus from Nishapur toward the Hijaz, c. 450/1058· Abd al-Ghafir al-Farisi
Sources
- Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , pp. 238-239
- Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Dar al-Risala al-Alamiyya edition) , j.18 p. 2576
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 605
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islam.museum contributors. “Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni dies at Bushtanqan, 25 Rabi' II 478/1085”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/death-al-juwayni-478/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.