Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam

Kamal al-Din ibn al-Humam
كمال الدين بن الهمام
TitleKamal al-Din[1][2]Shaykh al-Islam[3]
Personal
Born790 A.H. = 1388 A.D.
Died861 A.H. = 1457 A.D.
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni Sufi
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedMaturidi[4]
Main interest(s)Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Tawhid, Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Usul al-Fiqh, Usul al-Din, Hadith studies, Tafsir, Logic, Arabic grammar, Arabic literature, Rhetoric, Islamic inheritance jurisprudence, Sufism, Mathematics, Music
Notable work(s)Al-Musayarah, Fath al-Qadeer
Muslim leader
Influenced by

Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam (Arabic: الكمال بن الهمام) was a prominent Egyptian[5] Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist. He was a mujtahid and highly regarded in many sciences of knowledge and was also a Sufi.[6] Highly regarded in all fields of knowledge, including fiqh, usul al-fiqh, kalam (Islamic theology), logic, Sufism, Arabic language and literature, tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), Hadith, Islamic law of inheritance (in Arabic, known as 'ilm al-fara'id, or 'the science of [ancestral] shares'), mathematics, and music.[7][8][9]

He is famous for his commentary known as Fath al-Qadeer on the famous Hanafi book al-Hidayah.[10]

  1. ^ David Dean Commins (1990). Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria. Oxford University Press. p. 74. ISBN 9780195362947.
  2. ^ Sherman A. Jackson (2009). Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering. Oxford University Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780195382068.
  3. ^ "The Biography of Imam al-Kamal ibn al-Humam". Dar al-Ifta' al-Misriyya.
  4. ^ Cenap Çakmak (2017). Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia [4 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 1015. ISBN 9781610692175.
  5. ^ Baber Johansen (1999). Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh. Brill Publishers. p. 148. ISBN 9789004106031.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Madani was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "The Life and Works of al-Kamāl Ibn al-Humām". Ahnaf Blog.
  8. ^ "Al-'Alam by al-Zirikli". shamela.ws.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference OxfordDictionary was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Abdul Azim Islahi (2014). History of Islamic Economic Thought: Contributions of Muslim Scholars to Economic Thought and Analysis. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 9781784711382.

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