Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi
Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī (أَبُو مَنْصُور الْبَغْدَادِي) | |
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| Title | Imam |
| Personal life | |
| Born | c. 980 |
| Died | 1037 (429 AH) (aged c. 56–57) |
| Era | Islamic golden age |
| Region | Khorasan |
| Main interest(s) | Theology (Kalam), Islamic Jurisprudence, Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, Arabic grammar, Mathematics |
| Notable work(s) | Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq Kitab Uṣul al-Din |
| Occupation | Theologian, Scholar, Jurist, Legal theoretician, Grammarian, Heresiologist, Mathematician |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi'i |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
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| Ash'arism |
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Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn Ṭāhir bin Muḥammad bin ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī al-Shāfiʿī al-Baghdādī (Arabic: أبو منصور عبد القاهر ابن طاهر بن محمد بن عبد الله التميمي الشافعي البغدادي), more commonly known as Abd al-Qāhir al-Baghdādī (عبد القاهر البغدادي) or simply Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī (أبو منصور البغدادي) was an Arab Sunni scholar from Baghdad. He was considered a leading Ash'arite theologian and Shafi'i jurist. He was an accomplished legal theoretician, man of letters, poet, prosodist, grammarian, heresiologist and mathematician.