At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · Anatolia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Muhyi al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Bardai al-Hanafi, one of the mawlas of Anatolia and the son of scholars. He studied with his father and others, then went to Shiraz and Herat, read with their scholars and gained a great deal of learning. He then travelled to Anatolia, where he became a teacher at the madrasa of Ahmad Pasha in Bursa, and then at one of the two adjoining madrasas in Edirne, where he died while still teaching 1.
He wrote glosses on al-Baydawi's commentary on the Qur'an, glosses on the commentary of al-Sharif al-Sayyid on al-Tajrid, glosses on al-Jalawi, and a commentary on Adab al-Bahth by al-Adud. He had good manners, a gentle character, and was humble and reverent. He wrote a fine hand, even when writing quickly 1.
He died in Edirne in the year 923 1.
People and things also explored
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 561
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islam.museum contributors. “Muhyi al-Din al-Barda'i of Rum”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhyi-al-bardai-hanafi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.