Shaykh al-Islām
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Shaykh al-Islam was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences. It first emerged in Khurasan towards the end of the 4th Islamic century. In the ce
Shaykh al-Islām in different languages
Sheikh ul-Islam Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi during the reign of Ottoman Sultan and Caliph Abdul Hamid II
Book cover image, printed in 1906 in Cairo, written on it: Volume II of Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra by Shaykh al-Islam Taj al-Din al-Subki
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
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Ibn Hajar al Asqalani., or simply ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, bi
Tomb of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani in Cairo
18th-century manuscript of Ibn Hajar's Sharh al-Nukhba fi Mustalah al-Hadith