Murtada al-Zabidi

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rdf:langString Murtada al-Zabidi

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rdf:langString Cairo, Egypt

rdf:langString Bilgram, Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, India

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rdf:langString Muslim scholar, lexicographer

rdf:langString 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. 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. 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).