Sayf al-Din al-Amidi

Al - Amidi, whose full name Sayf al - Dīn ʿ Alī ibn Abī ʿ Alī ibn Muhammad at- Taghlabī al - Amidi (Arabic سيف الدين علي بن أبي علي بن محمد التغلبي الآمدي, DMG Sayf al - Dīn ʿ Alī b. Abī ʿ Alī b. Muhammad al - Amidi at- Taġlabī * 1156 or 1157, † 1233 ), was an Islamic jurist and theologian.

Al - Amidi first studied in Hanbali teachers in amide, later became a student of Ibn Fadlan in Baghdad supporters of schafiitischen direction. When a Christian teacher helped him to understand philosophy, had to Baghdad virtue of his employment, thus leaving and went to Syria, where he also met the mystic Suhrawardi.

After he came there as well because of his philosophical interests to hostilities, he moved to Egypt in 1196. There he wrote his great theological work, the Abkar al - Afkar / أبكار الأفكار. In Egypt Amidi got in trouble, so he moved back to Syria. During this time he wrote his work on "Strengthening of the rulers in the basics of rules of law " ( Iḥkām al - Usul al - Ahkam ḥukkām fī ), which he dedicated to the Ayyubid ruler al - Mu'azzam. In it, he has a complex communication-theoretical study of the character value ( Dalala ) developed by words inspired by al -Ghazali.

A shorter work from this period was entitled Muntaha al - Sul fi al - usul / منتهى السول في الأصول / Muntaha s- sul fī al - Usul. Even in Syria, al - Amidi was attacked, so he spent the last months of his life as a prisoner in his own home.