Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam
Kamal al-Din ibn al-Humam كمال الدين بن الهمام | |
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| Title | Kamal al-Din — Shaykh al-Islam |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 790 A.H. = 1388 A.D. |
| Died | 861 A.H. = 1457 A.D. |
| Main interest(s) | Aqidah, Kalam (Islamic theology), Tawhid, Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Usul al-Fiqh, Usul al-Din, Hadith studies, Tafsir, Logic, Arabic grammar, Arabic literature, Rhetoric, Islamic inheritance jurisprudence, Sufism, Mathematics, Music |
| Notable work(s) | Al-Musayarah, Fath al-Qadeer |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni Sufi |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Maturidi |
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Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam (Arabic: الكمال بن الهمام) was a prominent Egyptian Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist. He was a mujtahid and highly regarded in many sciences of knowledge and was also a Sufi. Highly regarded in all fields of knowledge, including fiqh, usul al-fiqh, kalam (Islamic theology), logic, Sufism, Arabic language and literature, tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), Hadith, Islamic law of inheritance (in Arabic, known as 'ilm al-fara'id, or 'the science of [ancestral] shares'), mathematics, and music.
He is famous for his commentary known as Fath al-Qadeer on the famous Hanafi book al-Hidayah.