Safi al-Din al-Hindi
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Safi al-Din al-Hindi صفي الدين الهِنْدي | |
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Title | Imam al-Mutakallimin |
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Born | 1246 Delhi |
Died | September 12, 1334 (aged 81)[1] Damascus |
Religion | Islam |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Shafi'i |
Creed | Ash'ari |
Main interest(s) | Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Usul al-Fiqh (principles of jurisprudence), Usul al-Din, Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Logic |
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Safi al-Din al-Hindi al-Urmawi (Arabic: صفي الدين الهندي الأرموي) was a prominent Indian Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar and rationalist theologian.
Al-Hindi was brought in to debate at Ibn Taymiyya during the second hearing in Damascus in 1306. Taj al-Din al-Subki, in his Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra, reports him to have said: "Oh Ibn Taymiyya, I see that you are only like a sparrow. Whenever I want to grab it, it escapes from one place to another."[2]
He was praised by Taj al-Din al-Subki, Al-Safadi, Shihab al-Din al-'Umari, Shams al-Din ibn al-Ghazzi, and 'Abd al-Hayy al-Hasani.
Biography[]
Safi al-Din al-Hindi was born in Delhi and completed his Islamic education there before settling in Damascus.[3] He visited Egypt and moved to Turkey, where he stayed[4] for eleven years; five in Konya, five in Sivas, and one in Kayseri. He arrived in Damascus in the second half of the 13th century and stayed there until he died.[5]
Safi al-Din al-Hindi studied under Siraj al-Din Urmavi and was said to have indirectly begun his studies with Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, whom he met through his maternal grandfather.[6] He was the teacher of mutakallim (theologian) Sadr al-Din ibn al-Wakil (d. 1317) and Kamal al-Din ibn al-Zamalkani (d. 1327).
His students, Ibn al-Wakil and Ibn al-Zamalkani and he, had been directly involved in Ibn Taymiyyah's famous 1306 Damascene trials, which were addressed to restrain Ibn Taymiyyah's relentless anti-Ash'ari polemics.[7]
Books[]
Among his best-known writings:
- Al-Fa'iq fi Usul al-Fiqh (Arabic: الفائق في أصول الفقه)
- Nihayat al-Wusul fi Dirayat al-Usul (Arabic: نهاية الوصول في دراية الأصول)
- Al-Resalah al-Tis'iniyya fi al-Usul al-Diniyya (Arabic: الرسالة التسعينية في الأصول الدينية)
Al-Hindi's Tis'iniyya is a straightforward manual of Ash'ari kalam treating the traditional theological topics of God, prophecy, eschatology, and related matters.
At the beginning of the book, al-Hindi explains that the occasion for writing was a disturbance provoked by Hanbalis:
This treatise comprises ninety issues about the foundations of religion (Usul al-Din). I wrote it when I saw students from Syria devoting themselves to learning this discipline after the famous disturbance (fitna) that took place between the orthodox (Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama'a) and some Hanbalis.
This is not a direct refutation of Ibn Taymiyya, but it was most likely written in response to the challenge that he posed.[8]
See also[]
- Taqi al-Din al-Subki
- 'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari
- List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
- List of Muslim theologians
References[]
- ^ "Safi al-Din | Biography, History, Religion, & Facts".
- ^ Ayman Shihadeh, Jan Thiele (2020). Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ash'arism East and West. Brill Publishers. pp. 211–216. ISBN 9789004426610.
- ^ "Indian Muslim Scholars, from Shah Wali Allah to Allama Iqbal, Have Offered Mixed Praise for Ibn Taymiyyah's Personality and Works | Hassam Munir".
- ^ Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ashʿarism East and West. BRILL. 2020-05-06. ISBN 978-90-04-42661-0.
- ^ "Al-'Alam by al-Zirikli". shamela.ws.
- ^ "Safi al-Din | Biography, History, Religion, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- ^ Stephan Conermann (2013). Ubi sumus? Quo vademus?: Mamluk Studies - State of the Art. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 63. ISBN 9783847101000.
- ^ Ayman Shihadeh, Jan Thiele (2020). Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ash'arism East and West. Brill Publishers. pp. 211–216. ISBN 9789004426610.
- Asharis
- Shafi'is
- Critics of Ibn Taymiyya
- 14th-century Muslim theologians
- Indian rationalists
- Islamic philosophers
- Sharia judges
- Sunni imams
- Sunni Muslim scholars
- Writers from Delhi
- 1246 births
- 1315 deaths
- 13th-century Muslim theologians