Afḍal al-Dīn al-Khūnajī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Nāmāwar b. ʿAbd al-Malik (Jumādā I 590–5 Ramaḍān 646/May 1194–December 1248), was a Persian scholar of the intellectual sciences and a judge (qāḍī) in Egypt. Some later sources recorded his father’s name and the date of his death differently (Ibn Qunfudh, 320; Ṭāshkubrīzādah, 1/275). He is apparently associated with Khūnaj (= Khūna, Khūnah), a small town near Zanjān, which should not be confused with Khunuj, a dependency of Lāristān in the pr…