Murtada al-Zabidi

Al-Murtaḍá al-Husaynī al-Zabīdī (Arabic: المرتضى الحسيني الزبيدي‎), or Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī (1732-1790), (1145-1205AH) was an Islamic scholar.^[1] He is also the author of the renowned dictionary Taj al-Arus Min Jawahir al-Qamus (تاج العروس).

Murtaḍá' was born in 1732 (1145AH) in [[Bilgram, Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, India). His family originated from Wasit in Iraq, from where his parents had emigrated to the Hadramawt region in the east of Yemen – where the Husaynī tribe is situated. Murtaḍá earned his nisba 'al-Zabīdī' from Zabīd in the south western coastal plains of Yemen, which was a centre of academic learning where he had spent time studying. He died in Egypt during a plague in 1790 (1205AH).

He was affiliated with the Naqshbandi Sufi order. One source says it was the Sufi order.^{[citation needed]}

Works[]

• Taj al-Arus Min Jawahir al-Qamus (تاج العروس) 'The Bride's Crown from the Pearls of the Qamus (Dictionary)'; an expansion of Fairuzabadi's Al-Qamoos,^[2] the most frequently cited dictionary of Classical Arabic after Lisān al-ʿArab by Ibn Manẓūr.

• Itḥāf al-sadāh al-muttaqīn bi sharḥ iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn: A commentary on al-Ghazali's monumental Ihya' Ulum al-Din.
• Al-Rauḍ al-ǧalī fī ansāb Āl Bā ʻAlawī (ال روض الجلي في أنساب آل با علوي) (Damascus, Dār Kinān li-ṭ-Ṭibāʻa wa an-Našr wa-t-Tauzī, 2010)

• Al-Ūqyānūs al-basīṭ fī tarjamat al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ (الأوقيانوس البسيط في ترجمة القاموس المحيط); (al-Qāhirah, Maṭbaʻat Būlāq, 1834)

References[]

External links[]

• A short biography and list of works: Imam Sayyid Murtada al-Zabidi
• The entire work of Taj al-Arus in pdf format: https://archive.org/details/alhelawy09

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