Mahmud al-Alusi
Abū al-Thanā’ Shihāb ad-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Ḥusaynī al-Ālūsī أبو الثناء شهاب الدين محمودالحسيني الآلوسي | |
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Title | al-Ālūsī Al-Kabīr (The Grand Ālūsī) |
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Born | 10 December 1802 CE / 1217 AH |
Died | 29 July 1854 CE / 1270 AH |
Religion | Islam |
Ethnicity | Arab |
Denomination | Sunni Islam |
Jurisprudence | Hanafi[1] |
Creed | Athari |
Notable work(s) | Ruh al-Ma`ani |
Occupation | Islamic scholar, Mufti, Teacher, Writer |
Abū al-Thanā’ Shihāb ad-Dīn Sayyid Maḥmūd ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Ālūsī al-Baghdādī (Arabic: أبو الثناء شهاب الدين سيد محمود بن عبد الله بن محمود الحسيني الآلوسي البغدادي; 10 December 1802 – 29 July 1854 CE) was an Iraqi Islamic scholar best known for writing Ruh al-Ma`ani, an exegesis (tafsir) of the Qur'an.
Biography[]
He was born in Baghdad on the day of Jumu`ah, 14 Sha`ban 1217 AH (Friday, 10 December 1802).[2] [3] He died on 5 Dhul-Q'dah, 1270 AH (29 July 1854)[2]
Works[]
An exhaustive list of all his works far to long and thus difficult to compile. Indexes in the British Library and the Below are a few examples:
- Rūḥ al-ma‘ānī fī tafsīr al-Qur’ān al-‘aẓīm wa-al-sab‘ al-mathānī (روح المعاني في تفسير القرآن العظيم والسبع المثاني)
- Nashwat al-shamūl fī al-safar ilā Islāmbūl (نشوة الشمول في السفر إلى إسلامبول)
- Nashwat al-mudām fī al-‘awd ilá Madīnat al-Salām (نشوة المدام في العود إلي مدينة السلام)
- al-Ajwibah al-‘Irāqīyah ‘alá al-as’ilah al-Lāhūrīyah (الأجوبة العراقية على الأسئلة اللاهورية)
- al-Ajwibah al-‘Irāqīyah ‘an al-as’ilah al-Īrānīyah (الأجوبة العراقية عن الأسئلة الإيرانية)
- Ghra'b al-'Ightirab (غرائب الإغتراب)
- Daqaiq al-Tafsir (دقائق التفسير)
- Sharh Sullam al-Mantiq (شرح سلم المنطق)
- al-Tiraz al-Mudh-hab Fi Sharh Qasydat al-Baz al-Ash-hab (الطراز المذهب في شرح قصيدة الباز الأشهب)
- al-Maqamat al-Alousiya (المقامات الآلوسية)
Legacy[]
Left a legacy of five sons: Sayid Abdullah Bha'uldin Al-Alousi, Sayid Sa'd Abdulbaqi Al-Alousi, Abu Albrakat Sayid Nu'man Khayruldin Al-Alousi, Sayid Mohammad Hamid Afandi and Sayid Ahmed Shakir Afandi[4]
References[]
- ^ Al-Alousi, Mahmoud Shukri (2016). "Allama Alusi" [Allama Alusi] (in Arabic). Baghdad. Archived from the original on 2018-01-20. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Al-Alousi, Mahmoud Shukri (1930). Al-Jubouri, Abdullah (ed.). المسك الأذفر [Almisk Aldhfar] (in Arabic). Baghdad: Arab Encyclopaedia House. pp. 171–200.
- ^ al-Musawi, Muhsin J.; Khaldi, Boutheina (2010). الوافي في تراث العرب الثقافي : الأندلس والمشرق العربي منذ سقوط الخلافة العباسية / al-Wāfī fī turāth al-ʻArab al-thaqāfī : al-Andalus wa-al-mashriq al-ʻArabī mundhu suqūṭ al-khilāfah al-ʻAbbāsīyah [The Exhaustive in the Cultural Heritage of the Arabs : Andalusia and the Arab East since the fall of the Abbasid caliphate] (in Arabic) (1st ed.). Beirut: al-Markaz al-Thaqāfī al-ʻArabī.
- ^ Al-Alousi, Mahmoud Shukri (1930). Al-Jubouri, Abdullah (ed.). المسك الأذفر [Almisk al-Adhfar] (in Arabic). Baghdad: Arab Encyclopaedia House. pp. 171–200.
- 1802 births
- 1854 deaths
- Writers from Baghdad
- Iraqi Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
- Quranic exegesis scholars
- 19th-century Arabs
- Iraqi writer stubs
- Islamic scholar stubs