al-Busrawi Ala al-Din Ali ibn Yusuf

البصروي علاء الدين علي بن يوسف

c. 1438 CE · c. 841 AH† – 1499 CE · 904 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Shafi'i jurist of Damascus, a student of Shaykh al-Islam Radi al-Din al-Ghazzi, named after Busra al-Sham; died 1499 CE.

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At a glance

Roles
Jurist · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: al-Tizini Muhammad ibn Muhammad · Ali ibn Muhammad al-Ashmuni · Ibn al-Himsi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad · al-Samhudi · Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi

Development of law, theology and institutions

Place in the story

  • JuristTradition

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

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موجز

علاء الدين علي بن يوسف بن أحمد الدمشقي البصروي فقيه شافعي من دمشق، نُسب إلى بصرى الشام. لازم شيخ الإسلام رضي الدين الغزي وبرع في الفقه. 1

وُلد نحو سنة 1438م وتوفي سنة 1499م بحسب الموسوعة. 1

People and things also explored

العواصم· The phrase "la yanbaghi" in Imam Ahmad's words· المظالم· نكاح المتعة· The reports from Imam Ahmad· Obedience to those in authority and not rebelling (in the Tahawi creed)· The Hanafi school (madhhab)· The Hanbali school (madhhab)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Busrawi Ala al-Din Ali ibn Yusuf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-busrawi-ala-al-din-ali-ibn-yusuf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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العواصم

al-Awasim — al-Rashid's self-governing frontier district 'that shields the borders', from Antioch to the Euphrates, charged with supplying the thughur; matched by the Byzantines' own Taurus defence line.