Al-Qushayri

Al-Qushayri
Al-Qushayri
Title	Shaykh al-Islām
Personal
Born	986 (AH 376)
Died	30 December 1072 (AH 465)
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic golden age
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Creed	Ash'ari
Main interest(s)	Tasawwuf, Islamic theology, Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Hadith, Tafsir, Grammar
Notable work(s)	Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya
Occupation	Muhaddith, Mufassir, Scholar, Muslim jurist, Theologian, Sufi
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Al-Shafi'i; Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari; Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri; Ibn Furak; Abu Ishaq al-Isfara'ini; Al-Sulami;

'Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawazin Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī (Persian: عبدالکریم قُشَیری‎, Arabic: عبد الكريم بن هوازن بن عبد الملك بن طلحة أبو القاسم القشيري; 986 – 30 December 1072) was an Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, jurist, legal theoretician, commentator of the Qur’an, muhaddith, grammarian, spiritual master, orator, poet, and an eminent scholar who mastered a number of Islamic sciences.^[3] Al-Qushayri, combined the routine instruction of a Shafi'i law specialist and Hadith expert (muhaddith) with a solid slant to mysticism and ascetic lifestyle.^[4]

He was born in Nishapur which is in Khorasan Province in Iran. This region was widely known as a center of Islamic civilization up to the 13th Century CE.^[5] He was the grandfather of the hadith scholar Abd al-Ghafir al-Farsi, a student of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni.^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. (1986). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. V (Khe-Mahi) (New ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 526. ISBN 9004057455.
^ ^a ^b Spevack, Aaron (2014). The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of Al-Bajuri. State University of New York Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-1438453712.
^ Shah, Zulfiqar A. (2014). Ifta' and Fatwa in the Muslim World and the West. International Institute of Islamic Thought. pp. 106–19. ISBN 9781565644830.
^ Knysh, Alexander (19 March 2019). Sufism A New History of Islamic Mysticism. Princeton University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9780691191621.
^ "Bayazid al-Bistami". World of Tasawwuf. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
^ Ibn Khallikan (1999). Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 2. Translated by William McGuckin de Slane. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 170.