Murtada al-Zabidi
Al-Murtaḍá al-Husaynī al-Zabīdī (Arabic: المرتضى الحسيني الزبيدي), or Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī (1732-1790), (1145-1205AH) was an Islamic scholar.[1] He is also the author of the renowned dictionary Tāj al-ʻĀrūs Min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs (تاج العروس) (The Chaplet of the Bride out of the Gems of al-Qāmūs). He wrote commentary on the famous book of Ghazzali on the revival of religious disciplines.
Murtada al-Zabidi | |
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| Born | 1732 Bilgram, Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Died | 1790 (aged 57–58) Cairo, Egypt |
| Occupation | Muslim scholar, lexicographer |
| Notable works | Tāj al-ʿArūs (تاج العروس) |
Murtaḍá' was born in 1732 (1145AH) in Bilgram, Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, India. His family originated from Wasit in Iraq, from where his parents had emigrated to the Hadramawt region in the east of Yemen – where the Husaynī tribe is situated. Murtaḍá earned his nisba 'al-Zabīdī' from Zabīd in the south western coastal plains of Yemen, which was a centre of academic learning where he had spent time studying. He died in Egypt during a plague in 1790 (1205AH).
Works
- Taj al-Arus Min Jawahir al-Qamus (تاج العروس) 'The Bride's Crown from the Pearls of the Qamus (Dictionary)'; an expansion of Fairuzabadi's Al-Qamoos,[2] the most frequently cited dictionary of Classical Arabic after Lisān al-ʿArab by Ibn Manẓūr.
- Itḥāf al-sadāh al-muttaqīn bi sharḥ iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn: A commentary on al-Ghazali's monumental Ihya' Ulum al-Din.
- Al-Rauḍ al-ǧalī fī ansāb Āl Bā ʻAlawī (الروض الجلي في أنساب آل با علوي) (Damascus, Dār Kinān li-ṭ-Ṭibāʻa wa an-Našr wa-t-Tauzī, 2010)
- Al-Ūqyānūs al-basīṭ fī tarjamat al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ (الأوقيانوس البسيط في ترجمة القاموس المحيط); (al-Qāhirah, Maṭbaʻat Būlāq, 1834)
References
- Reichmuth, Stefan (2009). The World of Murtaḍá Al-Zabīdī (1732-91): Life, Networks and Writings. Gibb Memorial Trust. Cover. ISBN 9780906094600.
- Muhanna, Elias (2017). The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition. Princeton University Press. p. 55. ISBN 9780691175560.
External links
- A short biography and list of works: Imam Sayyid Murtada al-Zabidi
- The entire work of Taj al-Arus in pdf format: https://archive.org/details/alhelawy09
