Badr al-Dīn ibn Jamaʿah explained

Badr al-Dīn Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Jamaʿah (1241–1333) was a Shafi'i jurist of Mamluk Sultanate (now Egypt) and a member of the Banu Jumah clan. He served as chief justice under the Mamluks of Cairo and twice in Damascus during a period when Shafi'i jurisprudence was favored by the state.^[1]

Badr al-Dīn was one of the teachers of the Damascene-based ḥadīth scholar Al-Dhahabi.^[2]

Major works

Among his many works, some are:

• Idah al-Dalil fi Qat'i Hujaj Ahl al-Ta'til (Explanation of Evidence in Cutting the Argument of the People of the Rejecters/Deniers of Allah's Names and Attributes).
• Ghurar al-Tibyān fī man lam yusamma fī al-Qurʼān.^[3]
• Etiquette of the Learner: An Abridgement of Tadhkirat al-Sāmiʻ wa-al-Mutakallim fī Adab al-ʻālim wa-al-Mutaʻallim.^{[4] [5]}

See also

• List of Ash'aris

Bibliography

• Book: Rosenthal, Erwin I. J. . Political Thought in Medieval Islam: An Introductory Outline . Cambridge University Press . 1958 . 9780511735332 .
• Book: Ibn Jamāʿah, Badr al-Dīn . Taḥrīr al-aḥkām fī tadbīr ahl al-Islām . 3rd . Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Munʿim Aḥmad . Dār al-Thaqāfa, Riʾāsah al-Maḥākim al-Sharʿīyah . Doha, Qatar . 1988 .
• Book: Lambton, Ann K. S. . State and Government in Medieval Islam: An Introduction to the Study of Islamic Political Theory . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 1981 .
• Salibi . Kamal S. . The Banū Jamāʿa: A Dynasty of Shāfi'ite Jurists in the Mamluk Period . Studia Islamica . 9 . 1958 . 97–109 . Brill . 10.2307/1594977 . 1594977 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Anjum, Ovamir. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics. October 7, 2014. Oxford University Press. www.oxfordreference.com. 10.1093/acref:oiso/9780199739356.001.0001. 978-0-19-973935-6 .
2. Books, Corruption, and an Emir's Downfall: The Founding of the Maḥmūdīyah Library in Mamluk Cairo . 10.1086/721639 . 2022 . Wynter-Stoner . Kyle . Journal of Near Eastern Studies . 81 . 2 . 335–362 .
3. Web site: Ghurar al-Tibyān fī man lam yusamma fī al-Qurʼān. Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn. Jamāʻah. October 7, 1990. Jāmiʻat al-Dirāsāt al-Islāmīyah. Google Books.
4. Book: Etiquette of the Learner: An Abridgement of Tadhkirat Al-sāmiʻ Wa-al-mutakallim Fī Adab Al-ʻālim Wa-al-mutaʻallim . 978-1-906949-43-3 . 2015 . Turath .
5. Book: Al-Madhhab al-tarbawī ʻinda Ibn Jamāʻah: Tadhkirat al-sāmiʻ wa-al-mutakallim fī ādāb al-ʻālim wa-al-mutaʻallim . 1984 . Dār Iqraʼ .