At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar · writer
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
sunni-hanbali (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Najib al-Din 'Abd al-Latif al-Hanbali, jurist and imam of his people and the most esteemed of them, a man of high standing with the sultan. He was severe in denouncing wrong, gave lessons and dictations in which he issued sound fatwas, and wrote chancery prose including fine royal narratives — among them the book al-Nur and his commentary on it in al-Kafi, which he named al-Kafiya and in which he went deep. The last to take fiqh from him was Abu Bakr ibn Sabah; he made the hajj among the greatest shaykhs. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 565
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islam.museum contributors. “Najib al-Din Abd al-Latif”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/najib-al-din-abd-al-latif/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.