At a glance
- Roles
- theologian · Jurist · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · Egypt & Nile
- 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-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Shams al-Din al-Asfahani, usuli, mutakallim and great scholar who settled in Egypt. He studied at Isfahan while his father was deputy sultan until he surpassed his peers; when the enemy seized Isfahan he moved to Baghdad, taking fiqh from Siraj al-Din al-Hirqili and the rational sciences from Taj al-Din al-Armawi, then went to Rum to Athir al-Din al-Abhari for dialectic and philosophy. He entered Cairo and held the judgeship of Qus as deputy for Qadi Taj al-Din Ibn Bint al-A'azz, administering it well, and taught at the Shafi'i and the Mashhad al-Husayn. He commented on the Mahsul and authored al-Fawa'id fi'l-'ulum al-arba'a and Ghayat al-matlub on logic — it was said Ibn Daqiq al-'Id attended his lesson at Qus. 1
Connections
- Born in
- Isfahan
People and things also explored
Jameh Mosque of Isfahan· Conquest of Isfahan (21 AH)· death of al-Bahlawan — the Isfahan mazhab wars, the Rayy fitna, Tughril breaks free· The Jalali calendar reform· The killing of Mardawij ibn Ziyad· Mas'ud ibn Mahmud Storms Isfahan· Sultan Muhammad ibn Malikshah takes the Batiniyya fortress at Isfahan and kills Ibn Attash in 500· Mungli killed; Aghlamish inherits his domains
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 710-711
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Shams al-Din al-Asfahani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shams-al-din-al-asfahani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.