At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- 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-hanafi (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Khwaharzada al-Kurdari, nephew of Shams al-A'imma 'Ala' al-Din al-Kurdari, author of the Bidaya; he read fiqh under his maternal uncle and took from him, and taught at the Balbisiiyya of Damascus; Ibn Kamal Pasha says he is called Badr al-Din Khwaharzada Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Hamid ibn 'Isa — and he transmitted from the author of the Hidaya, his father having been the brother of the Hidaya-author's mother. 1
Connections
- Studied under
- Shams al-A'imma al-Kurdari
- Died in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 262-263
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Badr al-Din Khwaharzada”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/khwaharzada-al-kurdari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.