Kamal al-Din Ibn Talha

Kamal al-Din Ibn Talha, the travelling mufti, author of al-'Iqd al-farid, one of the great dignitaries and leaders; he heard al-Mu'ayyad and Zaynab al-Sha'riyya at Nishapur, read fiqh and mastered fiqh, usul and khilaf, and wrote chancery prose for kings. ¹

In 648 his patent of vizierate was written; he declined and it was not accepted from him, so he held it two days, then slipped away secretly, leaving the wealth and all that was, donned a cotton garment and went — and none knew where. He had held the judgeship of Nisibis, then the khitaba of Damascus, then renounced the world, made the hajj, stayed briefly at Damascus and walked to Aleppo where he died in Rajab. His works include al-Durr al-munazzam on God's greatest name, and verses refuting the astrologers' judgment. ¹