Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti
محمد سعيد رمضان البوطي
1894 CE · 1311 AH – 1976 CE · 1396 AH
A prominent Muslim scholar: a legal theorist, jurist, reformer, philologist and editor, born in Damascus into an old family.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Contemporary Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Scripture and its sciencesDevelopment of law, theology and institutions
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
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People and things also explored
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi· Abdullah ibn Abbas· Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq· Abu Bakr al-Khallal· Abu al-Abbas Abd Allah al-Abyani· Al-Abbi, Muhammad ibn Khalfa· Al-Abhari, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd Allah· Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ramadan-al-buti-muhammad-said/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.