Ибн Барраджан
Ибн Барраджан
Christian-Muslim Relations 600 - 1500
Ibn Barrajān (317 words)
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Abū l-Ḥakam ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Lakhmī l-Ishbīlī
Date of Birth: Between 1058 and 1078
Place of Birth: Unknown; possibly Seville
Date of Death: 1141
Place of Death: Marrakesh
Biography
Ibn Barrajān lived in Seville for most of his life. He studied Arabic language and literature, Qurʾan exegesis, arithmetic, geometry and other disciplines of the time. He was known as an ascetic (zāhid), and was a famous Sufi, being known as Shaykh al-ṣūfiyya.
Ibn Barrajān is known for five books. Apart from his best-known work, Sharḥ asmāʾ Allāh al-ḥusnā, he also wrote an unfinished Tafsīr, which was famous for its innovative method for explaining verses of the Qur’an.
Primary Sources of Information
Ibn al-Abbār, Takmila li-Kitāb al-ṣila, ed. F. Codera, 2 vols, Madrid, 1887-89, i, p. 247
Ibn Khallikān, Wāfayāt al-aʿyān, iv, pp. 230, 236; vii, p. 340; viii, p. 71
Ibn al-Zubayr, Ṣilat al-ṣila, partial ed. E. Lévi-Provençal, Rabat, 1938, pp. 31-33
Al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, Beirut, 1981-86, pp. 72-75
Al-Ṣafadī, Al-wāfī bi-l-wafayāt, ed. S. Dedering, 24 vols, Wiesbaden, 1949-93, xviii, p. 428.
Ibn al-ʿImād, Shadharāt al-dhahab fī akhbār man dhahab, Beirut, s.d., iv, p. 13.
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Lisān al-mīzān, 7 vols, Beirut, 1971, iv, pp. 13, 14.
Al-Suyūṭī, Kitāb ṭabaqāt al-mufassirīn, Leiden, 1839, p. 20
Al-Baghdādī, Hadiyat 1al-ʿārifīn. Asmāʾ al-muʾallifīn wa-āthār al-muṣannifīn, ed. R. Bilge and M. Kemal, 2 vols, Istanbul, 1951, i, p. 570
Ḥajjī Khalifa, Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asmāʾ al-kutub wa-l-funūn, 2 vols, Istanbul, 1941-43, i, p. 257
Secondary Sources of Information
Ibn Barraŷān (m. 536/1141), Sharḥ asmāʾ Allāh al-ḥusnā (Comentario sobre los nombres más bellos de Dios), ed. P. de la Torre, Madrid, 2000, pp. 33-36
P. Nwiya, ‘Note sur quelques fragments inédits de la correspondance d’Ibn al-ʿArīf avec Ibn Barrajān’, Hespéris 43 (1956) 217-21
I. Goldziher, ‘Ibn Barrağān’, ZDMG 68 (1914) 544-46
Works on Christian-Muslim Relations
Литература
A Muslim Scholar of the Bible: Prooftexts from Genesis and Matthew in the Qur'an Commentary of Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141) // Journal of Qur'anic Studies, Volume 18 Issue 1, Page 1-48, ISSN 1465-3591 Available Online Apr 2016