Al-Āmidī, Sayf al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Abī ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Sālim al-Taghlabī (or al-Thaʿlabī) (551–631/1156–1234), was a physician, philosopher, theologian and jurist, who served at the Ayyūbid (q.v.) court in the late 6th–7th/12th–13th century and became a well-known teacher and author (Ibn Khallikān, 3/294; Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, 3(1)/285). Born at Āmid in upper Mesopotamia in 551/1156 (al-Qifṭī, 240; Ibn Khallikān, 3/294), he first learned the Qurʾān and stu…