At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
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Summary
Al-Qushayri's father died while he was a child, so he read letters and Arabic under Abu al-Qasim al-Yamani; he held a village near Ustuwa burdened with land-tax and came to Nishapur to learn enough revenue-work to protect it, when he chanced upon the assembly of Abu Ali al-Daqqaq, the preacher of his day — he relished his words and abandoned his plan, 'seeking the gown he found the Sufi cloak', and al-Daqqaq accepted him and pointed him to learning 1 2.
Connections
- Had participant
- Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri· Abu Ali al-Daqqaq
- Occurred at
- Nishapur
People and things also explored
Al-Qushayri succeeds al-Daqqaq at the madrasa's remembrance sessions, 405/1015· Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri· Al-Baghdadi teaches in seventeen fields at Nishapur as Khurasan's imams study under him, c. 425/1033· Al-Qushayri composes his great tafsir, Lata'if al-isharat, before 410/1019· The pulpit-cursing ordeal opens at Nishapur, 445/1053· Al-Qushayri's manifesto defending al-Ash'ari, 436/1045· Al-Qushayri's first hadith dictation sessions, 437/1046· Al-Qushayri imprisoned in the fitna of 446/1054 — he writes the 'Complaint of the people of the Sunna'
Sources
- Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 171
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 5 p. 564
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Qushayri joins Abu Ali al-Daqqaq's circle at Nishapur, c. 400/1009”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/qushayri-daqqaq-circle-400/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.