Al-Sharif al-Jurjani, Ali ibn Muhammad

الشريف الجرجاني علي بن محمد

1340 CE · 740 AH – 1413 CE · 816 AH

A scholar of philosophy, logic, theology and rhetoric, born in Taju and known as al-Sharif al-Jurjani.

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Roles
Philosopher · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Al-Barzali, Abu al-Qasim ibn Ahmad · Ahmadi Taj al-Din Ibrahim ibn Khidr · Abd Allah ibn Miqdad al-Aqfahsi · Al-Abbi, Muhammad ibn Khalfa · Ibn Khaldun

Philosophy and logicCreed

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  • PhilosopherTradition

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

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موجز

علي بن محمد بن علي الجرجاني، المعروف بالشريف، عالم في الفلسفة والمنطق والكلام والبلاغة. ولد في تاجو سنة 740هـ (1340م)، وتوفي سنة 816هـ (1413م). 1

يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي

مؤلفاته وشيوخه وتلاميذه.

People and things also explored

The world's createdness or eternity· The transmigration of souls· The people of the qibla and not declaring takfir for sin· The hereafter: the grave, resurrection and reckoning· The ten promised Paradise· Signs of the Hour· Bid'a (religious innovation)· الغيبة

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-Sharif al-Jurjani, Ali ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-sharif-al-jurjani-ali-ibn-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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The world's createdness or eternity

The eternity debate as al-Mas'udi stages it: Indian and Greek eternalists' great-year recurrence, the naturalists' hot-wet generation against cold-dry corruption, then his own kalam proof from the world's finite parts to a formless Maker — followed by the peoples' world-ages: the Jews' scriptural six thousand years, the Christians' agreement, and the Sabians' Greek doctrine.