Ibn al-Jazari

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Ibn al-Jazari ( Arabic ابن الجزري, DMG Ibn al-Ǧazarī , also Ibn al-Jazari ; * November 26, 1350 in Damascus ; † December 6, 1429 in Shiraz ), tooشمس الدين أبو الخير محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن علي بن يوسف العمري الدمشقي / Shams ad-Dīn Abū l-Ḫair Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Yūsuf al-ʿUmarī ad-Dimašqī , was a Faqīh , Qādī and Koran scholar.

Life

Ibn al-Jazari a traditional education received in his hometown in the fields hadeeth and Qira'at (readings of the Koran), was the age of thirteen to Haafiz , took place in 1367 with his father's Hajj and then sat in Cairo , Damascus and Alexandria his studies on the Koran, Hadith and Fiqh continued. From 1373 he received from Ibn Kathīr the approval ( Idschāza ) as Mufti , in 1391 he was appointed by Sultan Barquq to the Shāfiʿitic Qādī. In the meantime Ibn al-Jazari had begun to give Qirāʾāt lessons himself. After Barquq Ibn al-Jazarī's possessions had been confiscated under circumstances that were not entirely clear, he subsequently lived in Bursa . After Tamerlan's victory in the battle of Ankara , he sent him to Samarqand . After Tamerlan's death Ibn al-Jazarī was able to leave Transoxania again, traveled to Khorasan and was once again appointed Qādī in Shiraz. After further stays in Basra , Mecca and Medina , he returned to Shiraz, where he died in 1429.

meaning

Ibn al-Jazari wrote numerous treatises on various subjects, but especially on the Qirāʾāt, Fiqh and Hadīth. His works on the readings of the Koran and on the Tadschwīd are considered classics.

Ibn al-Jazari's historical works are of interest as contemporary sources on events such as the battle of Nicopolis and contain a great deal of autobiographical information, as a result of which many details are known about Ibn al-Jazari's curriculum vitae.

Works (selection)

  • تحبير التيسير في القراءات العشر / Taḥbīr at-taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿašr
  • تقريب النشر في القراءات العشر / Taqrīb an-našr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿašr
  • التمهيد في علم التجويد / at-Tamhīd fī ʿilm at-taǧwīd
  • طيبة النشر في القراءات العشر / Ṭayyibat an-našr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿašr
  • منجد المقرئين ومرشد الطالبين / Munǧid al-Muqriʾīn wa-muršid aṭ-ṭālibīn
  • جامع الأسانيد في القراءات / Ǧāmiʿ al-asānīd fī l-qirāʾāt
  • غاية النهاية في طبقات القراء / Ġāyat an-nihāya fī ṭabaqāt al-qurrāʾ

literature

  • İlker Evrim Binbaş: A Damascene Eyewitness to the Battle of Nicopolis: Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Jazarī . In: Mike Carr, Nikolaos G. Chrissis (eds.): Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453: Crusade, Religion and Trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks . Ashgate Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4094-3926-4 . Pp. 153-176
  • M. Ben Cheneb: Ibn al-D̲j̲azarī . In: Encyclopaedia of Islam , Second Edition. 1971. ISBN 978-90-04-16121-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kristina Nelson: The Art of Reciting the Qur'an . American Univ. in Cairo Press, 2001. ISBN 978-977-424-594-7 . P. 88
  2. ↑ İlker Evrim Binbaş: A Damascene Eyewitness to the Battle of Nicopolis: Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Jazarī . In: Mike Carr, Nikolaos G. Chrissis (eds.): Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453: Crusade, Religion and Trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks . Ashgate Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4094-3926-4 . P. 156f
personal data
SURNAME Ibn al-Jazari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibn al-Jazari; ابن الجزري; Ibn al-Ǧazarī; Shams ad-Dīn Abū l-Ḫair Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Yūsuf al-ʿUmarī ad-Dimašqī
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Islamic lawyer and Koran scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1350
PLACE OF BIRTH Damascus
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1429
Place of death Shiraz