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الزركاني أبو علي الحافظ

الزركاني أبو علي الحافظ

c. 993 CE · 383 AH – c. 1125 CE · 519 AH

The imam-hafiz Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Zarakani, called Alp Arslan — a trusted imam from whom al-Silafi gathered a hundred ajza'; born 383, he lived a hundred and thirty-nine years, dying in 519 1.

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Scholar
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ibn al-Manda'i al-Wasiti · Ibn al-Bitr Abu al-Khattab Nasr ibn Ahmad · أبو منصور الخياط مقرئ العميان ببغداد · أبو الفرج الزاز السرخسي فقيه مرو · al-Abiwardi

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Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 539
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