Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Jurist · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
sunni-shafii (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
'Umar al-Fayyumi, the jurist, studied fiqh at Cairo under al-Siraj al-Bulqini, travelled to Aleppo and held the army judgeship there, then was dismissed. He was brilliant in the inheritance-shares, a partner in the other sciences, with prose and verse, and commented on the Burda. He was killed in late Muharram at the Khan Ghabaghib outside Damascus while bound for Egypt. 2
Connections
- Child of
- Siraj al-Din al-Fayyumi of Aleppo
People and things also explored
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 17, 25
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 17
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Umar al-Fayyumi, Aleppo's army qadi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/umar-al-fayyumi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.