Murtada al-Zabidi | |
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Title | Imam Al-Ḥāfiẓ |
Personal | |
Born | 1732 |
Died | 1790 (aged 57–58) Cairo, Egypt |
Religion | Islam |
Era | Early modern period |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Hanafi[1] |
Creed | Maturidi[2] |
Main interest(s) | Hadith, Lexicography, Linguist, Philology, Genealogy, History, Theology, Tasawwuf, Geography, Medicine |
Notable work(s) | Tāj al-ʻĀrūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs Ithaf al-Sada al-Muttaqin |
Occupation | Muslim scholar, Muhaddith, philologist, linguist, lexicographergenealogist, biographer, historian, mystic, theologian |
Muslim leader | |
Al-Murtaḍá al-Husaynī al-Zabīdī (Arabic: المرتضى الحسيني الزبيدي), or Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī (1732–1790 / 1145–1205 AH), also known as Murtada al-Zabidi, was an Indian Sunni polymath based in Cairo.[3] He was a Hanafi scholar, Hadith specialist, philologist, linguist, lexicographer, genealogist, biographer, historian, mystic and theologian.[4][5][6] He was considered one of the leading intellectuals of the 18th century.[7] He was also regarded as the greatest Hadith scholar of his time and one of the foremost philologists of the Arab post-classical era.[8][9]
The great Indian Hanafi hadith scholar of Cairo, Muhammad Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1205/ 1791)
In Gran's account, the Maturidi polymath and hadith scholar, Muhammad Murtada al-Zabidi (1732–91), who arrived in Cairo from South Asia in 1767
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