Al-Nawawi
Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī | |
|---|---|
| Title | Shaykh ul-Islam Qutb al-Awliya' al-Shaykhayn Al-Ḥāfiẓ |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Muharram 631 AH/ October 1233 |
| Died | 24 Rajab 676 AH / 21 December 1277 (age 45) Nawa, Mamluk Sultanate |
| Resting place | Nawa, present Syria |
| Main interest(s) | Fiqh, Usul, Hadith, Mantiq |
| Occupation | Historiographer, bibliographer, scholar, jurist. |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| School | Shafi'i |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
| Muslim leader | |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Yaḥyā يَحْيَىٰ |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | Ibn Sharaf ibn Murī ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿa ibn Hizam ٱبْن شَرَف ٱبْن مُرِيّ ٱبْن حَسَن ٱبْن حُسَيْن ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ٱبْن جُمْعَة ٱبْن حِزَام |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū Zakariyyā أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | Al-Nawawī ٱلنَّوَوِيّ |
Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (Arabic: يحيى بن شرف النووي, romanized: Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī; (631A.H-676A.H) (October 1230–21 December 1277) was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar. Al-Nawawi died at the relatively early age of 45. Despite this, he authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence that are still read to this day. Al-Nawawi, along with Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i, are leading jurists of the earlier classical age, known by the Shafi'i school as the Two Shaykhs (al-Shaykhayn).