Nur al-Din al-Sabuni
Nur al-Din al-Sabuni نور الدين الصابوني | |
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| Title | Nur al-Din (Light of the Religion) |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Maturidi[1] |
| Muslim leader | |
Influenced by | |
Influenced
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Nur al-Din al-Sabuni also written as Nuraddin as-Sabuni (
Name
Ahmad b. Mahmud b. Abi Bakr al-Sabuni al-Bukhari, known as Nur al-Din Abu Muhammad.[4]
Birth and Death
He was born in
Life
There is not much information about his life. He seems to have belonged to a respected family in
Khurasan and Iraq
and had discussions with the scholars of these regions.
He also had lively discussions with
Ash'arite theology of his time. According to al-Razi's report, at the end of these discussions, Sabuni said that all his knowledge of kalam was based on the work of Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi; he also admitted to his own weakness in the science but said he was too old to start again.[citation needed
]
Books
| Part of a series on |
| Maturidism |
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| Background |
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Al-Sabuni wrote a number of works, some of which are still in
Arabic: عصمة الأنبياء, lit. 'Impeccability of the Prophets'). It starts by saying God sending a prophet is the result of His wise purpose, that prophets must be human, and that some of them are superior to others. Then after discussing their number and their infallibility, he goes on to discuss each individual prophet, starting with Adam and ending with the last prophet Muhammad
.
His al-Kifaya fi al-Hidaya (
predetermination
and human actions are followed by other traditional theoretical issues.
See also
- Abu Hanifa
- Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
- Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi
- Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi
- List of Ash'aris and Maturidis
- List of Muslim theologians
References
- ISBN 9781610692175.
- ISBN 9782745147677.
- ^ "The Traces of the Hanafi Culture from Semerkand to Cairo". JOURNAL of ISLAMIC RESEARCH.
- ^ Marmaduke Pickthall, Muhammad Asad (1967). Islamic Culture, Volume 12. Islamic Culture Board. p. 139.
- ^ "Taj al- Tarajim, by Ibn Qutlubugha". islamport.com.
- ISBN 9782745147677.
- ISBN 9789004092396.
- ISBN 9781472569462.
