'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari

Muslim theologian and mystic (b. 1377, d. 1438) Bukhari (surname) Bukhari (disambiguation) bio October 2019 Transoxiana Islamic Golden Age 'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari Sultan al-'Aimmah("Sultan of the Imams") 779 A.H. = 1377 A.D. Bukhara 841 A.H. = 1438 A.D. Mezzeh, Damascus Islam Sunni Hanafi Maturidi Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Usul al-Fiqh (principles of jurisprudence), Tafsir, Sufism, Literature, Rhetoric, Logic, and Dialectic Muljimat al-Mujassima, Fadihat al-Mulhidin wa Nasihat al-Muwahhidin, "Kashful Asrar" Abu HanifaAbu Mansur al-MaturidiSa'd al-Din al-Taftazani Ibn Hajar al-'AsqalaniBadr al-Din al-'Ayni'Abdullah al-Harari علاء الدين البخاري ar Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari (ar علاء الدين البخاري), was a Hanafi jurist (faqih), Maturidi theologian, commentator of the Qur'an (mufassir),https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/al-bukhari-ala-al-din-COM_25413 Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE April 2013 Reference Works — BrillOnline and a mystic (Sufi). He is perhaps best known for issuing a fatwa (a legal ruling) whereby anyone that gives Ibn Taymiyya the title "Shaykh al-Islam" is a disbeliever,Ibn Khafif Gibril Fouad Haddad Correct Islamic Doctrine/Islamic Doctrine https://books.google.com/books?id=eFmKGFZTTcoC 1999 Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA) 9781930409019 16 and authored a book against him entitled "Muljimat al-Mujassima" (ar ملجمة المجسمة Curbing the Anthropomorphists). Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi (d. 846/1438) countered this fatwa by authoring Al-Radd al-Wafir 'ala man Za'am anna man Samma Ibn Taymiyya Shaykh al-Islam Kafir (ar الرد الوافر على من زعم أن من سمى ابن تيمية شيخ الإسلام كافر), in which he listed all the authorities who had ever written in praise of Ibn Taymiyya or called him Shaykh al-Islam. He was born in Persia in 779 A.H./1377 A.D., and grew up in Bukhara and later travelled extensively to India, Arabia, Egypt and Syria. After involving himself in debates in Cairo between supporters and opponents of Ibn 'Arabi,Gibril Fouad Haddad The Biographies of the Elite Lives of the Scholars, Imams and Hadith Masters https://books.google.com/books?id=RwPnCAAAQBAJ 2015 Zulfiqar Ayub 235 he moved to Damascus where he composed the "Fadihat al-Mulhidin wa Nasihat al-Muwahhidin" (ar فاضحة الملحدين وناصحة الموحدين The Humiliation of the Heretics and Admonition of the Unitarians) and also proceeded to attack Ibn Taymiyya, to the anger of the city's Hanbalis.Elizabeth Sirriyeh Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus: 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641-1731) https://books.google.com/books?id=83JrBi-FM1QC 2005 RoutledgeCurzon 9780415341653 95 He was praised by some scholars of his time, like Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, and Badr al-Din al-'Ayni. Life He was born in Bilad al-'Ajam (Persia was often called Bilad al-'Ajam [land of 'Ajam]) and educated in Bukhara, where he studied under Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani. It was from him that al-Bukhari inherited a profound dislike for monistic philosophy, which he saw as synonymous with Ibn 'Arabi and his followers. Al-Bukhari traveled widely in Iran and Central Asia searching for competent religious. From an early age he excelled in traditional and rational sciences such as the Qur'an, hadith, rhetoric, logic, poetry, and dialectics. He also studied classical Sufi manuals and was seen by many as an accomplished Sufi master. A well-rounded individual with broad intellectual horizons, al-Bukhari for some time resided in India, where his preaching and lectures earned him great popularity among Indian Muslims. Having favorably impressed a local ruler, al-Bukhari was invited to serve as his personal religious tutor and advisor. However, a man of principle, he soon fell out with his Indian patron and left the Subcontinent for Mecca, where he lived for several years until the Mamluk sultan Bars Bay (r. 825/1422-841/1438) invited him to the Egyptian capital. Soon after his arrival, he was embroiled in a vociferous public dispute over Ibn 'Arabi's orthodoxy, in the course of which he clashed with the influential Maliki qadi of Egypt, Muhammad al-Bisati (d. 842/1438), who advised caution in this matter. Following a public altercation with his opponent, an angry al-Bukhari took ostentatious leave of Cairo to the great chagrin of his Egyptian partisans. In Syria, where he settled after his departure, al-Bukhari kept thinking about his "humiliation" at the hands of al-Bisati and composed a lengthy refutation of Ibn 'Arabi and his school, titled "Fadihat al-Mulhidin wa Nasihat al-Muwahhidin" (ar فاضحة الملحدين وناصحة الموحدين The Humiliation of the Heretics and Admonition of the Unitarians) Or, in another translation: (The Dishonoring of the Infidels and the Counseling of the Champions of God's Oneness). Simultaneously, he got himself involved in another fierce controversy. Ironically, this time his target was Ibn 'Arabi's archenemy, Ibn Taymiyya, whom al-Bukhari accused of certain juridical "innovations." Al-Bukhari's critique caused a great uproar in Syria that was home to many influential followers of Ibn Taymiyya. Unmindful of the wide opposition to his critique among his Syrian colleagues, al-Bukhari boldly demanded that Ibn Taymiyya be divested of his honorific title of shaykh al-Islam, proclaiming everyone who refused to do so an unbeliever. His condemnation of Ibn Taymiyya drew severe criticism and eventually a book-size refutation by the Shafi'i scholar Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi (d. 838/1434)27 who sent his opus to Egyptian scholars for approval. As one might expect, upon receipt of this work, Muhammad al-Bisati seized the opportunity to denounce his former prosecutor as an ignoramus and troublemaker. Al-Bukhari's acrimonious polemic with the Syrian supporters of Ibn Taymiyya did not cause him to forget about his hostility to Ibn 'Arabi, whom he continued to accuse of heresy and juridical incompetence.Alexander D. Knysh Ibn 'Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam https://books.google.com/books?id=RVVMT1K7whMC 1999 SUNY Press 9780791439685 204–207 See also Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi Nur al-Din al-Sabuni Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari List of Hanafis List of Ash'aris and Maturidis List of Muslim theologians List of Sufis References External links Le Chaykh 'Alâ-ou d-Dîn Al-Boukhâri dit qu'attribuer le corps à Allâh est de la mécréance par unanimité fr Biography Islam Philosophy Literature Uzbekistan Category:Maturidis Category:15th-century Muslim theologians Category:Logicians Category:Sunni Sufis Category:Sunni imams Category:Sunni fiqh scholars Category:Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Category:Quranic exegesis scholars Category:Uzbekistani Sunni Muslims Category:Uzbek Sufis Category:Critics of Ibn Taymiyya Category:Critics of Ibn Arabi Category:1377 births Category:1437 deaths Category:1438 deaths