ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī

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Abstract

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Taqī al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Surūr al-Maqdisī (d. 600/1203), a member of the renowned Banū Qudāma clan of Ḥanbalī scholars, preachers, and ascetic saintly men, was an expert on ḥadīth and an avid practitioner of al-nahy ʿan al-munkar (forbidding wrong) in late sixth/twelfth-century Damascus.
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationEncyclopaedia of Islam Three Online
EditorsKate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Devin J. Stewart
Edition3
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StatePublished - Apr 2022

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