Al-Juwayni
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al-Juwayni was a Sunni Shafi'i hadith and Kalam scholar.
Contents |
[edit] Name
Imam al-Haramayn Dhia' ul-Din Abd al-Malik ibn Yusuf al-Juwayni al-Shafi'i (419H - 478H)
[edit] Biography
He was one of the most famous and perhaps most important (after Imam Ash'ari himself of the scholars of the Asharite school of theological thought.
His full name was Abd al-Malik ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Yusuf, Abu al-Ma'ali al-Juwayni al-Shafi'i. He was the teacher of the famous Sufi and Islamic scholar Imam al-Ghazali.
He was also known by the nickname of 'Imam al-Haramayn meaning 'the Imam of the two sanctuaries' (i.e Mekka and Medina) He served in the Nizamiyya seminaries built by the Seljuq Turks who favoured the Asharite school of thought where he educated numerous scholars of the Asharite school.
Some modern Muslims who belong to the Salafi have claimed that al-Juwayni abandoned the Asharite school of thought for their own school of thought (a more literalist interpretation preached by ibn Taymiyah, his student ibn al-Qayyim . Needless to say, Asharites refute such a claim. The links below provide both sides to the argument.
[edit] Legacy
Al-Dhahabi says in Tadhkirat al-huffaz, vol. 4, p. 298, that al-Juwayni was a great scholar of Hadith.
Also see his biographical note in Ibn Hajar Asqalani , al-Durar al-kaminah, vol. 1, p. 67.
He was one of the most famous teachers of the Asharite theology alongside al-Bayhaqi, Shatibi and others. Due to him teaching at the Nizamiyya school and it's patronage by the Seljuqs he was a contributing factor to the spread of the Asharite school in the Islamic world.
[edit] Works
In fiqh: Ghiyath al-Umam, Mughith al-Khalq, Nihaya al-Matlab fi Diraya al-Madhhab ("The End of the Quest in the Knowledge of the [Shafi'i] School"), his magnum opus, which Ibn 'Asakir said had no precedent in Islam, and Mukhtasar al-Nihaya.
In usûl: al-Burhan, al-Talkhis, and al-Waraqat.
In kalâm: al-Shamil, al-Irshad (a book which has been translated into English), and al-Nizamiyya.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- a site giving the Asharite point of view, and providing a refutation of al-Albani and salafi accusations that Imam al-Juwayni abandoned the Asharite school.
- An article from the salafi point of view, concerning the Imam
