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Ajiba bint al-Baqdari

عجيبة بنت البقدري

c. 1159 CE · c. 554 AH – c. May 1249 CE · Safar 647 AH

Baghdad

The last living ijaza-granter of her time — 'the recourse of the transmitters', dead in Safar 647 at ninety-three 1.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Scholar · muhaddith
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ibn al-Kashshab al-Baghdadi · Ibn al-Khayr al-Azji · Ibn Khalil al-Dimashqi Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf · Izz al-Din Ibn Rawaha · Ibn Shufayn al-Abbasi

In space

Baghdad

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Place in the story

    Sunni (transmitted)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Overview

    'Ajiba bint al-Baqdari — the last person in the world to license a samā'; she is the authority for the transmitters. She died in Safar at ninety-three. 1

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    Died in
    Baghdad

    People and things also explored

    The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· al-Bimaristan al-Muqtadiri· Bimaristan al-Sayyida· Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)· The Jami' al-Qati'a of Baghdad· The mosque of Qati'at Umm Ja'far

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 246
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