Mahmud al-Alusi

Abu al-Thana' Shihab ad-Din Mahmud al-Alusi
أبو الثناء شهاب الدين محمود الآلوسي
Title al-Alusi al-Kabir (The Grand Alusi)
Born 10 December 1802
Baghdad, Baghdad Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died 1854
Ethnicity Iraqi
Occupation Islamic scholar, Mufti, Teacher, Writer
Religion Islam
Denomination Sunni Islam
Notable work(s) Ruh al-Ma`ani

Abū al-Thanā’ Shihāb ad-Dīn Sayyid Maḥmūd ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Ālūsī al-Baghdādī (Arabic: أبو الثناء شهاب الدين سيد محمود بن عبد الله بن محمود الحسيني الآلوسي البغدادي; 10 December 1802  1854) was an Iraqi Islamic scholar best known for writing Ruh al-Ma`ani, a tafsir (exegesis) of the Qur'an.

Biography

He was born in Baghdad on the day of Jumu`ah, 14 Sha`ban 1217 AH (Friday, 10 December 1802).[1] He died in 1270 AH (1854).[2]

Works

Legacy

He had a son named Nu'man al-Alusi.[2]

References

  1. al-Musawi, Muhsin J.; Khaldi, Boutheina (2010). الوافي في تراث العرب الثقافي : الأندلس والمشرق العربي منذ سقوط الخلافة العباسية / al-Wāfī fī turāth al-ʻArab al-thaqāfī : al-Andalus wa-al-mashriq al-ʻArabī mundhu suqūṭ al-khilāfah al-ʻAbbāsīyah [The Exhaustive in the Cultural Heritage of the Arabs : Andalusia and the Arab East since the fall of the Abbasid caliphate] (in Arabic) (1st ed.). Beirut: al-Markaz al-Thaqāfī al-ʻArabī.
  2. 1 2 http://www.livingislam.org/k/strm_e.html



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