Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi

Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī
(أَبُو مَنْصُورالبغدادي)
Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī; (أَبُو مَنْصُورالبغدادي)
Title	Imam
Personal
Born	c. 980; Baghdad
Died	1037 (429 AH); (aged c. 56–57); Isfayayin
Religion	Islam
Era	Islamic golden age
Region	Khorasan
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Creed	Ash'ari
Main interest(s)	Theology (Kalam), Islamic Jurisprudence, Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, Arabic grammar, Mathematic
Notable work(s)	Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq; Kitab Uṣul al-Din
Occupation	Theologian, Scholar, Jurist, Legal theoretician, Grammarian, Heresiologist, Mathematician
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Al-Shafi'i; Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari; Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini;
	Influenced Al-Qushayri; Al-Bayhaqi;

Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn Ṭāhir bin Muḥammad bin ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī al-Shāfiʿī al-Baghdādī (Arabic: أبو منصور عبدالقاهر ابن طاهر بن محمد بن عبدالله التميمي الشافعي البغدادي), more commonly known as Abd al-Qāhir al-Baghdādī (عبد القاهر البغدادي) or simply Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī (أَبُو مَنْصُورالبغدادي) was an Arab^[4] Sunni scholar from Baghdad. He was considered a leading Ash'arite theologian and Shafi'i jurist. He was an accomplished legal theoretician, man of letters, poet, prosodist, grammarian, heresiologist and mathematician.^[5]^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch., eds. (1960). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 909. OCLC 495469456.
^ Anthony, Sean (2011). The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Sabaʾ and the Origins of Shīʿism. Brill. p. 72. ISBN 978-9004216068.
^ Adang, Camilla; Fierro, Maribel; Schmidtke, Sabine (2012). Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Handbook of Oriental Studies) (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. p. 387. ISBN 978-90-04-23424-6.
^ "Al-Baghdadi biography". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk.
^ Gibril Fouad Haddad 2015, p. 185
^ Böwering & Orfali 2015, p. 3

[Gibb_909-1] Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch., eds. (1960). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 909. OCLC 495469456.

[2] Anthony, Sean (2011). The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Sabaʾ and the Origins of Shīʿism. Brill. p. 72. ISBN 978-9004216068.

[3] Adang, Camilla; Fierro, Maribel; Schmidtke, Sabine (2012). Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker (Handbook of Oriental Studies) (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. p. 387. ISBN 978-90-04-23424-6.

[Al-Baghdadi_biography-4] "Al-Baghdadi biography". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk.

[Biography185-5] Gibril Fouad Haddad 2015, p. 185

[6] Böwering & Orfali 2015, p. 3

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