عبد الغافر الفارسي
عبد الغافر الفارسي
c. 1135 CE · 529 AH
The hafiz and littérateur Abu al-Hasan Abd al-Ghafir ibn Ismail al-Farisi — author of the Tarikh Nishapur, Majma al-ghara'ib and al-Mufhim, a commentary on Muslim; imam in hadith, language, adab and balagha and a Shafi'i jurist; he transmitted from his maternal grandfather Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri's generation, kept Imam al-Haramayn's company four years learning khilaf and fiqh, travelled widely, then returned to Nishapur as its khatib, taking tafsir and usul from his uncles Abu Sa'id Abdallah and Abu Sa'id Abd al-Wahid, sons of al-Qushayri; d. at Nishapur in 529 at seventy-eight 1.
At a glance
- Roles
- Historian · Scholar · Jurist
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
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Connections
- Studied under
- إمام الحرمين الجويني
- Died in
- Nishapur
People and things also explored
The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Qasr al-Shadiyakh· إلزام لعن الرافضة والأشعرية على منابر خراسان· The Conquest of Naysabur· إمام الحرمين الجويني· Nishapur
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 573
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