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- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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- Persia & Central Asia
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Summary
His father the imam Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Yusuf al-Juwayni died in Dhu al-Qa'da 438/1047 when he was twenty; he was seated in his father's place to teach before completing twenty — teaching while going out to al-Bayhaqi's madrasa and perfecting the usul under Abu al-Qasim al-Isfara'ini al-Iskaf 1 2 3 4.
Connections
- Had participant
- Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni· Abdallah ibn Yusuf al-Juwayni· Abu al-Qasim al-Isfara'ini al-Iskaf
- Occurred at
- Nishapur
People and things also explored
Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni is born at Bushtanikan, Muharram 419/1028· Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni· Final settlement at Nishapur and the thousand fascicules, c. 457/1065· Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni dies at Bushtanqan, 25 Rabi' II 478/1085· 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
Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
- Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , pp. 230-231
- Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Dar al-Risala al-Alamiyya edition) , j.18 pp. 2574-2575
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 605
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Juwayni takes his father's teaching chair before twenty, 438/1047”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/juwayni-succeeds-father-438/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.