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Al-Nasafi (Abu al-Barakat)
Al-Nasafi (Abu al-Barakat)
?–1310 CE · Baghdad
Hafiz al-Din Abu al-Barakat ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Nasafi (d. 710 AH / 1310 CE) was a Sunni scholar of the Hanafi school of law and the Maturidi school of theology, originating from Nasaf in Transoxiana (modern Qarshi, Uzbekistan). He is best known for his Quranic commentary Madarik al-Tanzil wa-Haqaʾiq al-Taʾwil, a concise and widely studied tafsir, and for Kanz al-Daqaʾiq, a compact manual of Hanafi jurisprudence that became a standard reference for later generations of jurists. He taught for a period in Kerman and died at Idhaj (modern Izeh) in Khuzestan, reportedly while returning from a journey to Baghdad.
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About Baghdad
Baghdad, on the Tigris, is the capital of modern Iraq. The Abbasid caliph al-Mansur founded it in 762 as his capital, and for five centuries it was a leading centre of Islamic learning, with the House of Wisdom, the Nizamiyya madrasa and many jurists, Sufis and scientists; Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, eponym of the Qadiriyya order, is buried there. The Mongol sack of 1258 ended the caliphate, and the city later passed to Ottoman rule. It was also a seat of the patriarchs of the Church of the East and of the exilarch who headed Babylonian Jewry. Its Jewish community, whose foremost nineteenth-century rabbi was Yosef Hayyim (Ben Ish Chai), almost entirely emigrated to Israel in 1950-52.
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