Mufaddal

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Mufaddal or al-Mufaddal is an Arabic name that may refer to:

  • al-Mufaddal al-Dabbi
    (died c. 780–787), Arabic philologist of the Kufan school
  • al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi (died before 799), early Shi'i / ghulat leader and close confidant of Ja'far al-Sadiq (died 765)
  • Athir al-Din al-Abhari, al‐Mufaddal ibn Umar ibn al‐Mufaddal al‐Samarqandi al‐Munajjim (died 1265 or 1262), Iranian astronomer and mathematician
  • al-Mufaddal ibn Abi al-Fada'il, 14th-century Coptic Christian historian from Egypt
  • Mufaddal Saifuddin (born 1946), spiritual leader and 53rd Da'i Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras, a subgroup of the Ismaili Shia branch of Islam

See also

  • Mufaddaliyat, 8th-century anthology of ancient Arabic poems compiled by al-Mufaddal al-Dabbi
  • Tawhid al-Mufaddal, 9th-century work falsely attributed to al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi