At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- 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-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Shihab al-Din al-Milkawi, the most learned of Damascus's qadis and one of its esteemed imam-scholars. Al-Zuhri said: no one in the city took the sciences in their proper form except him; he was sought for fatwas from every region. He leaned strongly toward Ibn Taymiyya and held many of his positions sound; there was sharpness in him and he had a squeamishness toward people. He came away from Timur's calamity ailing and weak of body, and died. 1
Connections
- 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. 32
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Shihab al-Din al-Milkawi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shihab-al-din-al-milkawi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.