Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · mufassir · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
sunni-maliki (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Al-Sharishi, the Maliki jurist, usuli and exegete, named for Sharish in Játiva; he heard at the frontier, Baghdad and Damascus, and was accomplished in Malik's madhhab, exact in Arabic, versed in kalam, devoted to God's Book and its exegesis — a man of asceticism and dignity, who wrote a celebrated commentary on al-Hariri's Maqamat. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 663
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Sharishi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-sharishi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.