At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-hanbali (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
'Izz al-Din Ibn 'Awad, the Hanbali chief qadi; he deputised for Shaykh Taj al-Din Ibn al-Farkah many times and headed the bench under Sultan Khalil — he was the last of Egypt's Maliki-nursed qadis; he had no shaykh in fiqh to rely on, and died in Cairo in Safar aged sixty-six. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 762
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Izz al-Din ibn 'Awad, qadi al-qudat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/izz-al-din-ibn-awad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.