al-Bayḍāwī, Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī, Qurʾān exegete (mufassir) and Shāfiʿī jurist, jurisprudent (uṣūlī), and judge (qāḍī) of the 7th–8th/13th–14th centuries. In theology al-Bayḍāwī was Ashʿarī. His fame is due to the special value of some of his writings in the fields of Qurʾān commentary (tafsīr), theology and jurisprudence.
Al-Bayḍāwī and His Scholarship
The scion of a family of Shāfiʿī scholars, al-Bayḍā…
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Faramarz Haj Manouchehri,
Translated by Muhammad Isa Waley and
Mosallayi-pour, Abbas,
“al-Bayḍāwī”, in:
Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Farhad Daftary.
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