Al-Taftazani | |
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Born | 1322 |
Died | 1390 |
Religion | Islam |
Region | Sarakhs |
Denomination | Sunni |
School | Ashari, Hanafi |
Jurisprudence | Hanafi[2] |
Creed | Ashari[3][4] |
Main interest(s) | Linguistics, Theology, Islamic jurisprudence, Rhetoric, Logic |
Notable work(s) | Sharh al-'Aqa'id al-Nasafiyya, Sharh al Maqasid |
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Sa'ad al-Din Masud ibn Umar ibn Abd Allah al-Taftazani (Persian: سعدالدین مسعودبن عمربن عبداللّه هروی خراسانی تفتازانی) also known as Al-Taftazani and Taftazani (1322–1390) was a Muslim Persian polymath.[6][2][7][8][9][10]
Al-Taftazani was born in 1322 in Taftazan, Khorasan in Iran, then in the Sarbedaran state.[1][11] He completed his education in various educational institutions in the cities of Herat, Ghijduvan, Feryumed, Gulistan, Khwarizm, Samarkand and Sarakhs. He mainly resided in Sarakhs. He was active during the reign of Timur, who noticed him as a promising scientist and supported his scholarship, and was part of his court. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani famously remarked about him that "science ended with him in the East" and "no one could ever replace him".[12] He died in Samarkand in 1390 and was buried in Sarakhs.[13]
During his lifetime, he wrote treaties on grammar, rhetoric, theology, logic, law and Quran exegesis.[2] His works were used as textbooks for centuries in Ottoman madrasahs[11] and are used in Shia madrasahs to this day.[14] He completed "Sharh-i az-Zanjani" which was his first and one of his most famous works at the age of 16.[15] He also wrote a commentary of the Qur'an in Persian and translated a volume of Sa'adi's poetry from Persian into Turkish.[citation needed] But it was in Arabic that he composed the bulk of his writing.
His treatises, even the commentaries, are "standard books" for students of Islamic theology and his papers have been called a "compendium of the various views regarding the great doctrines of Islam".[1]
Ibn Khaldun said of him: [16][17]
I found in Egypt numerous works on the intellectual sciences composed by the well-known person Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani, a native of Herat, one of the villages of Khurasan. Some of them are on kalam (speculative theology) and the foundations of fiqh and rhetoric, which show that he had a profound knowledge of these sciences. Their contents demonstrate that he was well versed in the philosophical sciences and far advanced in the rest of the sciences which deal with Reason.
A famous fourteenth-century theologian and jurisprudent, al-Taftāzānī is one of the last representatives of the high tide of Ash'arite philosophical theology.
In my opinion, al-Taftazani and al-Jurjani reconciled the Asharite.
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