غاية البيان الدراسة

غاية البيان نادرة الزمان في آخر الأوان شرح الهداية لأمير كاتب الأتقاني

QIWAMUDDIN ITQANI The scholar’s full name is Qiwamuddin Amir Katib ibn Amir Umar ibn Amir Ghazi Farabi Itqani. He was born in 1286 in the village of Itqan, which belongs to the city of Farab on the banks of the Sayhun river. He is known by the nisbas of Itqani, Farabi, Turkistani, and Otrari. His nickname was Qiwamuddin. Some sources mention that his name is Lutfullah. It is also mentioned that he was highly knowledgeable in Hanafi jurisprudence and received the nickname “Abu Hanifa”. The word “Amir” in the name of his ancestors, like his own, indicates that he belonged to the family of a statesman. He first studied in Itqan and learned science from Ahmad ibn As’ad Harifani, one of the scholars of his time. He also attended Abul Barakat Nasafi’s classes in Nishapur.

Itqani, who was one of the leading scholars of his time in Hanafi jurisprudence and the Arabic language, went to Damascus in 720/1320, in the same year for the Hajj. On his way back, he travelled to Cairo and Baghdad. He worked as a judge in Baghdad and as a teacher at the “Mashhad Abu Hanifa” madrasah. In 747/1346, he went to Damascus for the second time and worked as a teacher in “Dar al-Hadith az-Zahiriyya” and “Ganjiyya” madrasas.

Sargatmish Nasiri, one of the famous Mamluk generals in Egypt, personally welcomed Itqani in Cairo. Sources show that he appointed Itqani as the headmaster of the Sargatmishiya madrasah where he taught