al-Irbili, Abu al-Ma'ali
الإربلي أبو المعالي
1287 CE · 686 AH – 1354 CE · 755 AH
Scholar of Mosul in the eighth century AH, active in religious learning and letters.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Ma'ali Badr Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ahmad al-Irbili al-Mawsili, a scholar from Mosul in the eighth century AH, among the people of religious learning and letters. 1
Dates of life
The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 686 AH (1287 CE) and his death as 755 AH (1354 CE). The two dates come from one source, so they need a second source. 1
People and things also explored
The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Irbili, Abu al-Ma'ali”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/irbili-muhammad-ibn-ali/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.