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Burhan al-Din ibn Abi al-Wafa al-'Iraqi

برهان الدين ابن أبي الوفا العراقي

c. June 1482 CE · Jumada I 887 AH

Ibn Abi al-Wafa — the Husayni Iraqi Shafi'i who read the seven qira'at, wrote, entered Cairo, and died at his Damascus zawiya Jumada I 887 at sixty-six 1.

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At a glance

Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan · Shihab al-Din Ibn 'Ubba al-Maqdisi

Education

Summary

Burhan al-Din Ibn Abi'l-Wafa al-Husayni al-'Iraqi, the Shafi'i imam and scholar; he read in the seven readings, studied fiqh and composed, entered Cairo, and died at his zawiya in Damascus in Jumada I 787, aged sixty-six. 1

People and things also explored

al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez· Experience versus service, and self-development· Scientific matn (condensed school text)· Reading and culture (al-qira'a wa-l-thaqafa)· Motivation· The youth cultural crisis· Life management and choosing one's field· Madrasa

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 346
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al-Attarine Madrasa, Fez

Draft card for the al-Attarine Madrasa of Fez, the Marinid college built by Sultan Abu Said Uthman II in 1323 near the Qarawiyyin; a masterwork of Marinid architecture per the cited encyclopedia, the page not yet checked.