Shaykh al-Islām
id:
shaykh-al-isl-m-213-4470571
title:
Shaykh al-Islām
text:
Shaykh al-Islām 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 central and western lands of Islam, it was an informal title given to jurists whose fatwas were particularly influential, while in the east it came to be conferred by rulers to ulama who played various official roles but were not generally muftis. Sometimes, as in the case of Ibn Taymiyyah, the use of
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Arabic honorific for an outstanding Islamic scholar
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaykh_al-Isl%C4%81m
date created:
2006-04-11T23:23:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T11:42:52Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1410729","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1410729"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Shaykh_al-Isl%C4%81m_in_different_languages.jpg","width":652,"height":362}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16