Al-Taftazani

Al-Taftazani
Al-Taftazani
Personal
Born	1322; Taftazan Khorasan, Iran
Died	1390; Samarkand
Religion	Islam
Region	Sarakhs
Denomination	Sunni
School	Ashari, Shafi'i
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Creed	Ashari
Main interest(s)	Linguistics, Theology, Islamic jurisprudence, Rhetoric, Logic
Notable work(s)	Sharh al-'Aqa'id al-Nasafiyya, Sharh al Maqasid
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Al-Ash'ari, Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi;

Sa'ad al-Din Masud ibn Umar ibn Abd Allah al-Taftazani (Persian: سعدالدین مسعودبن عمربن عبداللّه هروی خراسانی تفتازانی) also known as Al-Taftazani and Taftazani (1322–1390) was a Muslim Persian polymath.^[6]^[2]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

^ Cite error: The named reference Al-Taftazani 1950 p. XX was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b "Al-Taftazanni Sa'd al-Din Masud b. Umar b. Abdullah", in Encyclopedia Islam by W. Madelung, Brill. 2007
^ ^a ^b Kaukua, Jari (31 October 2015). Sgarbi M. (ed.). "Al-Taftazānī". Encyclopaedia of Renaissanace Philosophy: 1–2. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4. hdl:10278/3726814. ISBN 978-3-319-02848-4. Retrieved 21 June 2020. A famous fourteenth-century theologian and jurisprudent, al-Taftāzānī is one of the last representatives of the high tide of Ash'arite philosophical theology.
^ ^a ^b Aydin, Omer (2005). Gunduz, Sinasi; Yaran, Cafer (eds.). "Change and Essence: Dialectical Relations Between Change and Continuity in the Turkish Intellectual Tradition". Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change. IIA. 18. CRVP: 105. ISBN 1-56518-222-7. In my opinion, al-Taftazani and al-Jurjani reconciled the Asharite.
^ Khadduri, Majid. "Elder (tr.): A Commentary on the Creed of Islam (Book Review)." Middle East Journal 4 (1950): 262.
^ Al-Taftazani, Sad al-Din Masud ibn Umar ibn Abd Allah (1950). A Commentary on the Creed of Islam: Sad al-Din al-Taftazani on the Creed of Najm al-Din al-Nasafi (Earl Edgar Elder Trans.). New York: Columbia University Press. p. XX.
^ Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume 1, London, 1900. excerpt from pg 202: "..the next work in Turkish poetry is versified translation of Sa'adi's Bustan or 'Orchard' made in 755 by the great and famous Persian schoolmen Sa'd-ud-Din Me'sud-i-Teftazani."
^ Gerhard Endress, An Introduction to Islam, translated by Carole Hillenbrand, Columbia University Press, 1998. excerpt from pg 192: "Death of Sa'ad al-Din al-Taftazani, Persian historian and philosopher at the court of Timur"
^ Allen J. Frank, Islamic Historiography and "Bulghar" Identity Among the Tatars and Bashkirs of Russia, Brill, 1998. excerpt from pg 83:One of the most curious aspects of the Tawarikh i-Baghdadiya are the repeated references to the great Persian theologian Sa'd al-Din Taftazani (1322-1389), who did in fact associate with Timur.
^ Knysh, A. D. (1999). Ibn ʻArabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam. New York. State University of New York Press. p. 144.

[Al-Taftazani_1950_p._XX-1] Cite error: The named reference Al-Taftazani 1950 p. XX was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[ReferenceA-2] "Al-Taftazanni Sa'd al-Din Masud b. Umar b. Abdullah", in Encyclopedia Islam by W. Madelung, Brill. 2007

[ashari-3] Kaukua, Jari (31 October 2015). Sgarbi M. (ed.). "Al-Taftazānī". Encyclopaedia of Renaissanace Philosophy: 1–2. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4. hdl:10278/3726814. ISBN 978-3-319-02848-4. Retrieved 21 June 2020. A famous fourteenth-century theologian and jurisprudent, al-Taftāzānī is one of the last representatives of the high tide of Ash'arite philosophical theology.

[reconciled-4] Aydin, Omer (2005). Gunduz, Sinasi; Yaran, Cafer (eds.). "Change and Essence: Dialectical Relations Between Change and Continuity in the Turkish Intellectual Tradition". Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change. IIA. 18. CRVP: 105. ISBN 1-56518-222-7. In my opinion, al-Taftazani and al-Jurjani reconciled the Asharite.

[5] Khadduri, Majid. "Elder (tr.): A Commentary on the Creed of Islam (Book Review)." Middle East Journal 4 (1950): 262.

[6] Al-Taftazani, Sad al-Din Masud ibn Umar ibn Abd Allah (1950). A Commentary on the Creed of Islam: Sad al-Din al-Taftazani on the Creed of Najm al-Din al-Nasafi (Earl Edgar Elder Trans.). New York: Columbia University Press. p. XX.

[7] Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume 1, London, 1900. excerpt from pg 202: "..the next work in Turkish poetry is versified translation of Sa'adi's Bustan or 'Orchard' made in 755 by the great and famous Persian schoolmen Sa'd-ud-Din Me'sud-i-Teftazani."

[8] Gerhard Endress, An Introduction to Islam, translated by Carole Hillenbrand, Columbia University Press, 1998. excerpt from pg 192: "Death of Sa'ad al-Din al-Taftazani, Persian historian and philosopher at the court of Timur"

[9] Allen J. Frank, Islamic Historiography and "Bulghar" Identity Among the Tatars and Bashkirs of Russia, Brill, 1998. excerpt from pg 83:One of the most curious aspects of the Tawarikh i-Baghdadiya are the repeated references to the great Persian theologian Sa'd al-Din Taftazani (1322-1389), who did in fact associate with Timur.

[10] Knysh, A. D. (1999). Ibn ʻArabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam. New York. State University of New York Press. p. 144.

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Al-Taftazani
Personal
Born	1322 Taftazan Khorasan, Iran^[1]
Died	1390 Samarkand
Religion	Islam
Region	Sarakhs
Denomination	Sunni
School	Ashari, Shafi'i
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i^[2]
Creed	Ashari^[3]^[4]
Main interest(s)	Linguistics, Theology, Islamic jurisprudence, Rhetoric, Logic
Notable work(s)	Sharh al-'Aqa'id al-Nasafiyya, Sharh al Maqasid
Muslim leader
Influenced by Al-Ash'ari,^[3] Abu Mansur al-Maturidi,^[4] Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi^[5]