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Shaykh al-Islam al-Makari

شيخ الإسلام المكاري

c. 1018 CE · 409 AH – 1093 CE · 486 AH

Shaykh al-Islam al-Makari (409–486) — Umayyad-descended shaykh of al-Makara near Aleppo; met al-Ma'arri and summed him up as 'a man of the Muslims'; when titled Shaykh al-Islam he answered 'rather a shaykh in Islam' 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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975100010251050107511001125 c. c. c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: أبو عامر الأزدي القاضي محمود بن القاسم المهلبي · al-Abiwardi · Ibn al-Bitr Abu al-Khattab Nasr ibn Ahmad · Razaq Allah ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Tamimi · أبو بكر الشاشي محمد بن علي بن حامد

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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