At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Chief qadi Shams al-Din al-Khuyi the Shafi'i — of Khuy, a town in Azerbaijan; he entered Khurasan, read usul under al-Qutb al-Misri, pupil of the imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, fiqh under al-Rafi'i and the science of dialectic under 'Ala' al-Din al-Tusi, and held the chief judgeship of Syria. 1
His works and praise
His books include one on usul, one of philosophical symbols, one on grammar and one on prosody; al-Dhahabi called him "a jurist, imam, debater, expert in kalam, a master in medicine and wisdom, devout, much praying and fasting." 1
Connections
- Died in
- Damascus
- Studied under
- Imam al-Rafi'i Abd al-Karim al-Qazwini
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 183
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Khuyi, qadi al-qudat of al-Sham”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-khuyi-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.