At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · theologian · Philosopher
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
The scholar Kamal al-Din Ibn Yunus of Mosul, the Shafi'i, one of the great luminaries; he read fiqh under his father and at Baghdad under the Nizamiyya's tutor al-Sadid al-Salmasi, mastering usul and khilaf, read grammar under Ibn Sa'dun al-Qurtubi, and gave himself wholly to the rational sciences until he reached their utmost — it was said he mastered fourteen disciplines, some say twenty-four sciences with complete mastery — and alone perfected mathematics, having no equal. 1
His place in learning
He was suspected in religion because the rational sciences dominated him; when Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's books reached Mosul no one understood their terminology but him, and the People of the Covenant read Torah and Gospel under him, confessing they found no one to clarify them like him. Ibn Khallikan saw him at Mosul in Ramadan 626 and visited him repeatedly. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Mosul
People and things also explored
Great Mosque of al-Nuri· Battle of al-Khazir· Conquest of Mosul· death of the atabeg Izz al-Din Masud of Mosul· Death of Nur al-Din Arslan Shah of Mosul· death of Quṭb al-Dīn Mawdūd — Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī II succeeds in Mosul· Muzaffar al-Din of Irbil marches on Mosul and returns· Muzaffar al-Din of Irbil besieges Mosul
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 206-207
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Kamal al-Din Ibn Yunus”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/kamal-al-din-ibn-yunus/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.